Savage Grace: The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and Famous American Family
Natalie Robins, Steven M.L Aronson, "Savage Grace: The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and Famous American Family"
2008 | ISBN: 1416572961 | 512 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 1,9 MB
2008 | ISBN: 1416572961 | 512 pages | EPUB, MOBI | 1,9 MB
A spellbinding tale of money and madness, incest and matricide, Savage Grace is the saga of Brooks and Barbara Baekeland – beautiful, rich, worldly – and their handsome, gentle son, Tony. Alternately neglected and smothered by his parents, he was finally driven to destroy the whole family in a violent chain of events.
Savage Grace unfolds against a glamorous international background (New York, London, Paris, Italy, Spain); features a nonpareil cast of characters (including Salvador Dalí, James Jones, the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and European nobility); and tells the doomed Baekelands' story through remarkably candid interviews, private letters, and diaries, not to mention confidential hospital, State Department, and prison documents. A true-crime classic, it exposes the envied lives of the rich and beautiful, and brilliantly illuminates the darkest corners of the American Dream.