Rulers of Kings
Publisher: Folcroft Library Editions
Published: June 2004
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780841430938
First sentence: WHEN Fessenden Abbott heard that he was to inherit four hundred millions of dollars he experienced the profoundest discouragement he was ever to know, except on that midnight ten years later when he stood on a moonlit balcony in Hungary, alone with the daughter of an Emperor, and opened his contemptuous American mind to the deeper problems of Europe.