The beneficiary : fortune, misfortune, and the story of my father
(2019)
By:
Scott, Janny
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
BIOGRAPHY/SCOTT,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Riverhead Books, 2019
DESCRIPTION
278 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781594634192, 159463419X :, 159463419X, 9781594634192
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Journalist Janny Scott describes the world that shaped her father, Robert Montgomery Scott (whose mother, Helen Hope Scott, was said to have inspired Katherine Hepburn's character in the play and the film The Philadelphia Story), and provides a look at the weight of inheritance, the tenacity of addiction, and the power of buried secrets"--