This wasn’t as interesting as I’d hoped it would be all the way through, but I’m not unhappy I read it. When he happened upon a mansion newly for sale that had been empty for over sixty years, journalist Bill Dedman was intrigued. The Santa Barbara estate, it turned out, was owned by the Clark family, one of the last remainders of W.A. Clark’s financial empire. Clark had been one of the top four or five richest men in the world in the early 1900s, […]