No one likes to believe that America has its own aristocracy, but the families described in this narrative share how these American families climbed the social

This collection of entries offers a front seat view of the rise, reign, and fall of powerful modern political families and examines the effects they have had on

Approached from a historical lens, learn about the great and influential families, their rise and sometimes their fall. No one likes to believe that America has

A “magisterial” (The Wall Street Journal) portrait of four generations of the Morgenthau family, a dynasty of power brokers and public officials with an out

From the author of the New York Times bestseller The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, a fascinating look at the crossroads of kin and coin David S. Landes has ear