Title: Legacy
First published: 1999
Description: "The father fled East Prussia to escape the 1880s pogroms and, as a penniless immigrant boy, hawked newspapers on the streets of Chicago. The son, who lives on Philadelphia's Main Line and on a palatial California estate, is a multibillionaire and America's most generous living philanthropist. Legacy is an epic saga of how Moses and Walter Annenberg built a vast publishing empire and one of the nation's greatest family fortunes.

Sweeping through the century, the story encompasses brutal circulation wars, bookie parlors and racetracks, a lethal presidential vendetta, the glory days of Hollywood and of television, diplomatic drawing rooms. White House intrigues, tangled romances, a tragic suicide, extravagant social climbing. Britain's royal family, a fabled art collection, and astonishing generosity."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Biography, Ambassadors, Publishers and publishing, Journalists, Philanthropists, Biographie, Annenberg, walter h., 1908-2002, Journalists, biography, Journalists, united states, Publishers and publishing, united states
Places: United States
People: Walter H. Annenberg (1908-), Moses Louis Annenberg (1878-), Moses Louis Annenberg (1878-1942), Moses Louis Annenberg, Walter H. Annenberg, Walter H. Annenberg (1908-2002)
LC classification: PN4874.A56 O37 1999