The Billionaire's Vinegar (Paperback)The Billionaire's Vinegar tells the true story of a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux-supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson-that sold for $156,000 at auction and of the eccentrics whose lives intersected with it. Was it truly entombed in a Paris cellar for two hundred years? Or did it come from a secret Nazi bunker? Or from the moldy basement of a devilishly brilliant con artist? As Benjamin Wallace unravels the mystery, we meet a gallery of intriguing players-from the bicycle-riding British auctioneer who speaks of wines as if they are women to the obsessive wine collector who discovered the bottle. Suspenseful and thrillingly strange, this is the vintage tale of what could be the most elaborate con since the Hitler diaries.. |
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Jefferson and Monticello The Biography of a BuilderIf our homes are a reflection of our selves, our psyches as well as our tastes, then surely Monticello, the labor of nearly a lifetime and quite possibly the most creative endeavor of an immensely creative man, is a fitting avenue by which to approach the life of Thomas Jefferson. Unlike other biographies, which have centered on the political man and his public career, this is a domestic portrait as seen through the prism of Jefferson's love affair with Monticello. With intuitive sympathy and a sure command of his subject, Dr. Jack McLaughlin has crafted here an uncommon portrait of builder and building alike. |
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