Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune
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Could she tell me who the guests were? She mentioned several, including J. P. Morgan, and … “Oh, what was that character’s name? Oh, yes, Carnegie. Andrew Carnegie.”
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You know, that one fellow...who was he again?
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W.A. planned an opera career for Anna under the stage name Montana.
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Anna Montana? Precursor to HANNAH Montana??
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In Montana in the 1890s, as in the United States in the 2010s, the laws were loose enough to allow men of means to spend unlimited sums of money, either personally or through their companies, to put candidates into office.
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Most people, when downsizing from 121 rooms to only 17, would have to figure out which furnishings to sell off.
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Downsizing goals