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Misfortunes of Wealth
Misfortunes of Wealth explores one of American society’s endlessly fascinating scenarios, the one where inherited wealth and family intersect, not always to the good. Best of all, the story is true. James Goldsborough takes the reader on a journey beginning with Revolutionary War heroes down through succeeding generations of Civil War notables, industrial titans, an improbable love story with an eleven-year courtship, a couple besotted and befuddled by all that is given them, and fnally, a son who not only survives but thrives.

The family tree is populated with such historical families as the Shields, the Crittendens, the Olivers, the Nevilles, and the Craigs; military, political, and industrial leaders of their time.

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"Misfortunes of Wealth" will be published on Oct. 1 2008

Rebel Europe: Living with a Changing Continent About the book. He has worked for the San Francisco Examiner, Honolulu Advertiser, Arizona Republic, New York Herald Tribune, International Herald Tribune, Newsweek, San Jose Mercury News, and the San Diego Union-Tribune. He is a former Edward R. Murrow fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author of Rebel Europe: Living with a Changing Continent.