Fortune Misfortune and the Story of My Father.
In this warmly felt tale of an American familys fortunes, journalist JANNY SCOTT excavates the rarefied world that shaped her charming, unknowable father, Robert Montgomery Scott..
There was an obligation to protect it, a license to enjoy it, a duty to pass it on but it was impossible to know in advance how all that extraordinary good fortune might influence the choices made over a lifetime.
Land, houses, and money tumbled from one generation to the next on the eight-hundred-acre estate built by Scotts investment banker great-grandfather on Philadelphias Main Line.
Fortune Misfortune and the Story of My Father