The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, And The Story Of My Father

"To give you a quick sense of Janny Scott’s pedigree, her great-great-grandfather was a railroad baron and mentor to Andrew Carnegie, and her glamorous grandmother was said to be the inspiration for the Hepburn character in The Philadelphia Story. Growing up, Scott (along with her family and four generations of relatives) lived in houses scattered over an 800-acre Main Line estate. The Beneficiary is a wise and poignant memoir about the emotional weight of inheritance. Scott surveys all the things money can buy – and all the things it can’t."