 | American Blue Blood: The Challenge of Coming of Age in Upper Class America by William C. Codington
Buy new: £8.18 / Used from: £10.37 The only work of fiction on this list. Deals with all the challenges great families are forced to deal with.
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 | The Lees of Virginia: Seven Generations of an American Family by Paul C. Nagel
Buy new: £13.95 / Used from: £1.51 The Lees of Virginia are one of America's the earliest dynasties. A great story.
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 | The Astors: A Family Chronicle of Pomp and Power by Lucy Kavaler
Buy new: £15.99 / Used from: £14.49 Made money in fur, then New York real estate. After 200 years, family name still recognized. One branch to England, got peerage, daughter-in-law the first female member of Parliament.
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 | The Warburgs: The Twentieth-Century Odyssey of a Remarkable Jewish Family by Ron Chernow
Buy new: £14.65 / Used from: £9.81 Ron Chernow is a master and this family's story reads like a novel.
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 | The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance by Ron Chernow
Buy new: £22.00 / Used from: £13.83 Another Ron Chernow masterpiece. Full of rich family detail.
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 | The Rothchilds: Portrait of a Dynasty (Kodansha globe series) by Frederic Morton
Buy used from: £23.75 The Rothschild family were incredible (still are). Here is the family story that doesn't get bogged down in all the financial ins-and-outs.
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 | Descent from Glory: Four Generations of the John Adams Family by P C Nagel
Buy new: £19.51 / Used from: £15.32 John Adams and John Quincy Adams were the first father and son to be U.S. presidents. But the Adams FAMILY story was just as fascinating.
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 | An American Aristocracy: The Livingstons by Clare Brandt
Buy used from: £22.95 European-style aristocracy has had a foothold in America in just a handful of instances.
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| Rockefellers: An American Dynasty by Peter Collier
Buy used from: £0.75 We all know what John D. Rockefeller did. What about his kids and grandkids, etc.?
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| The Serpent and the Stag by Pearson John
Buy used from: £1.51 A very creditable job of recounting the history of the fascinating Cavendish family (the Dukes of Devonshire).
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 | The Arms of Krupp by William Manchester
Buy new: £17.09 / Used from: £15.34 The Arms of Krupp is a brilliantly written book detailing the rise and fall, over a 400 year span, of one of the most powerful families in history.
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 | The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty by Susan E. Tifft
Buy new: £21.73 / Used from: £9.17 A straightforward, balanced account that details the buildup, over several generations, of a newspaper empire by the Binghams of Louisville, Kentucky, and the squabbling among family members.
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 | The Kennedys: An American Drama by Peter Collier
Buy new: £10.99 / Used from: £32.44 There are lots of great books about JFK, but what about a book that gives us a look at the whole family from the beginning up until today?
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 | The Roosevelts: An American Saga by Peter Collier
Buy new: £10.36 / Used from: £0.20 There are lots of great books about Teddy and FDR themselves, but what about the whole Roosevelt clan?
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 | The Fords: An American Epic by Peter Colier
Buy used from: £10.07 Like the Rockefellers, there is more to the story than just the story of the family founder.
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| Du Pont Dynasty: Behind the Nylon Curtain by Gerald Colby
Buy used from: £33.94 They had money 200 years ago, and they still have it today. No family in America has held on to so much money for so long.
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 | The Vanderbilts by Jerry Patterson
Buy new: £34.20 / Used from: £32.23 The Vanderbilts were a colorful crowd.
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