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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 finally, 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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Rebel Europe: Living with a Changing Continent Rebel Europe, published by Macmillan, was acclaimed by Sen. J.W. Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as “the most perceptive and profound analysis of the reasons why the influence and prestige of the United States have suffered such a decline during the last twenty years.” Flora Lewis, foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times wrote that, “anyone who wonders why Europe is arguing with the U.S. should read this book.” Reviewed on the front page of the Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Books editor Charles Champlin called it, “The most important book I have read in years.”.