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The Guggenheims
John H. Davis
其他書名
An American Epic
出版Morrow, 1978
ISBN06880327379780688032739
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=n7stAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋This definitive portrait of one of America's wealthiest, most influential dynasties traces their dynamic and often tragic lives. The Guggenheims: beginning with Meyer Guggenheim, the penniless immigrant whose genius for business and penchant for taking risks made the family fortune; Solomon Guggenheim, the pioneer art patron who commissioned Frank Lloyd Wright to build the revolutionary piece of modern architecture, The Guggenheim Museum, opening the doors of contemporary art to America; Peggy Guggenheim, self-styled 'first liberated woman' who built a Venetian palace for her art but lost both her daughter and her lover to suicide; Daniel & Harry Guggenheim, whose financial interest in rocket science supported the Apollo moon landing and the growth of America's modern space program; Roger W Straus Jr, grandson of Daniel Guggenheim, who became America's foremost literary publisher, bringing numerous Nobel Prize winning authors to the world's bookshelves. John Davis has chronicled the saga of one of America's first families of philanthropy.