Reviews
The creation of a house is not unlike the raising of a child. Lee and Robert Dalzell have brilliantly brought to life the complexities, constraints, and compromises that underlie the drama surrounding the building of Kykuit and have continued the story through the years that followed with equal finesse., " This is a book about a great house, to be sure, but more about the conversations taking place inside it, which the Dalzell' s have recovered with perfect pitch - conversations about what to do with the greatest fortune in American history." -- Joseph J. Ellis, author of the upcoming "American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic" " The creation of a house is not unlike the raising of a child. Lee and Robert Dalzell have brilliantly brought to life the complexities, constraints, and compromises that underlie the drama surrounding the building of Kykuit and have continued the story through the years that followed with equal finesse." -- Pauline C Metcalf, author of "Ogden Codman and the Decoration of Houses", "This is a book about a great house, to be sure, but more about the conversations taking place inside it, which the Dalzell's have recovered with perfect pitch - conversations about what to do with the greatest fortune in American history." -- Joseph J. Ellis, author of the upcoming American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic "The creation of a house is not unlike the raising of a child. Lee and Robert Dalzell have brilliantly brought to life the complexities, constraints, and compromises that underlie the drama surrounding the building of Kykuit and have continued the story through the years that followed with equal finesse." -- Pauline C Metcalf, author of Ogden Codman and the Decoration of Houses "[The authors] have shed welcome light on the endlessly fascinating subject of Americans and wealth, or, more precisely, the uneasiness of Americans with wealth, even those who possess it . . . [W]atching the fight over building [the Rockefellers'] dream house, so well told by the Dalzells, you see the anxieties that dogged their every step." -- Newsweek, [The authors] have shed welcome light on the endlessly fascinating subject of Americans and wealth, or, more precisely, the uneasiness of Americans with wealth, even those who possess it . . . [W]atching the fight over building [the Rockefellers'] dream house, so well told by the Dalzells, you see the anxieties that dogged their every step., This is a book about a great house, to be sure, but more about the conversations taking place inside it, which the Dalzell's have recovered with perfect pitch - conversations about what to do with the greatest fortune in American history., "This is a book about a great house, to be sure, but more about the conversations taking place inside it, which the Dalzell's have recovered with perfect pitch conversations about what to do with the greatest fortune in American history."-Joseph J. Ellis, author of the upcoming American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic "The creation of a house is not unlike the raising of a child. Lee and Robert Dalzell have brilliantly brought to life the complexities, constraints, and compromises that underlie the drama surrounding the building of Kykuit and have continued the story through the years that followed with equal finesse."-Pauline C Metcalf, author of Ogden Codman and the Decoration of Houses "[The authors] have shed welcome light on the endlessly fascinating subject of Americans and wealth, or, more precisely, the uneasiness of Americans with wealth, even those who possess it . . . [W]atching the fight over building [the Rockefellers'] dream house, so well told by the Dalzells, you see the anxieties that dogged their every step." -Newsweek
