Savage Grace The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and Famous American Family
, by Robins, Natalie; Aronson, Steven M.LNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781416572961 | 1416572961
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/18/2007
A spellbinding tale of money and madness, incest and matricide,Savage Graceis the saga of Brooks and Barbara Baekeland -- beautiful, rich, worldly -- and their handsome, gentle son, Tony. Alternately neglected and smothered by his parents, he was finally driven to destroy the whole family in a violent chain of events.Savage Graceunfolds against a glamorous international background (New York, London, Paris, Italy, Spain); features a nonpareil cast of characters (including Salvador Dali, James Jones, the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and European nobility); and tells the doomed Baekelands' story through remarkably candid interviews, private letters, and diaries, not to mention confidential hospital, State Department, and prison documents. A true-crime classic, it exposes the envied lives of the rich and beautiful, and brilliantly illuminates the darkest corners of the American Dream.