ADAMS
Adams: An American Dynasty, by Francis Russell. American Heritage, 1976.
The Adams Chronicles: Four Generations of Greatness, by Jack Shepherd. Little, Brown, 1975.
Descent from Glory: Four
Generations of the Adams Family, by Paul C. Nagel. Oxford, 1983.
America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918, by Richard
Brookhiser. Free Press, 2002.
ASTOR
The Astor Family, by John D. Gates. Doubleday, 1981.
Dynasty: The Astors and Their Times, by David Sinclair. Beaufort, 1984.
The Astors, by Virginia Cowles. Knopf, 1979.
BARRYMORE
The Barrymores: The Royal Family of Hollywood, by James Kotsilibus-Davis. Crown, 1981.
The House of Barrymore, by
Margot Peters. Knopf. 1990.
The Barrymores: Hollywood's First Family, by Carol Stein
Hoffman. Univ. Pr. of KY, 2001.
BEECHER
The Passionate Beechers: A Family Saga of Sanctity & Scandal, by Samuel A. Schreiner, Jr. Wiley, 2003.
BINGHAM
The Binghams of Louisville: the Dark History Behind One of America's Great Fortunes, by David Leon Chandler. with Mary Voelz Chandler. Crown, 1987.
House of Dreams: the Bingham Family of Louisville by Marie Brenner. Random House, 1988.
The Patriarch: The Rise & Fall of the Bingham Dynasty, by Susan E. Tifft & Alex S. Jones. Summit, 1991.
BOOTH
American Gothic: The Story of America's Legendary Theatrical Family, Junius, Edwin, and John Wilkes Booth, by Gene Smith. S&S, 1992.
BRONFMAN
The Bronfmans: The Rise & Fall of the House of Seagram, by Nicholas Faith. St. Martin's, 2006.
BUSH
The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty,
by Kitty Kelley. Doubleday, 2004.
American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit
in the House of Bush, by Kevin Phillips. Viking, 2004.
COORS
Citizen Coors: An American Dynasty, by Dan Baum. Morrow, 2000.
DODGE
Dodge Dynasty: The Car and the Family that Rocked Detroit, by Carline Latham. HBJ, 1989.
DUPONT
Du Pont Dynasty: Behind the Nylon Curtain, by Gerard Colby. Lyle Stuart, 1984, 1974.
The Du Pont Family, by John D. Gates. Doubleday, 1979.
The Du Ponts: Portrait of a Dynasty, by Saturday Review Press, 1976.
EISENHOWER
The Eisenhowers: Reluctant Dynasty, by Steve Neal. Doubleday, 1978.
FONDA
The Fondas: A Hollywood Dynasty, Peter Collier. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1991.
GETTY
The House of Getty, by Russell Miller. Henry Holt, 1985.
Painfully Rich: the Outrageous Fortune and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty, by John Pearson. St. Martin's, 1995.
GUGGENHEIM
The Guggenheims: A Family History, by Irwin Unger & Debi Unger. HarCol, 2005.
The Guggenheims: An American Dream, by Edwin P. Hoyt, Jr. Funk & Wagnalls, 1967.
The Guggenheims: An American Epic, by John H. Davis. Morrow, 1978.
HAWTHORNE
The Hawthornes: The Story of Seven Generations of an American Family, by Vernon Loggins. Greenwood, 1968, 1951.
HEARST
The Hearsts: An American Dynasty, by Judith Robinson. Univ. of Delaware, 1991.
The Hearsts-Family & Empire: the Later Years, by Lindsay Chaney & Michael Cieply. Simon & Schuster, 1981.
HUNT
Texas Rich: The Hunt Dynasty, from the Early Oil Days through the Silver Crash, by Harry Hurt. Norton, 1981.
HUSTON
The Hustons, by Lawrence Grobel. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989.
JAMES
The James Family, by F. O. Matthiessen. Knopf, 1947.
The Jamses: A Family Narrative, by R. W. B. Lewis. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1991.
KENNEDY
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, by Doris Kearns Goodwin. Simon & Schuster, 1987.
The Kennedys: An American Drama, by Peter Collier & David Horowitz. Summit, 1984.
The Kennedys: Dynasty & Disaster, 1848-1983, by John H. Davis. McGraw-Hill, 1984.
Sins of the Father: Joseph P.
Kennedy & the Dynasty He Founded, by Ronald Kessler. Warner, 1996.
The Kennedy Men: Three Generations of Sex, Scandal & Secrets,
by Nellie Bly. Kensington, 1996.
Sons of Camelot: The Fate of an American Dynasty, by Laurene
Leamer. Morrow, 2004.
LEE
Tidewater Dynasty: The Lees of Stratford Hall, by Carey Roberts. HBJ, 1981.
MATHER
The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728, by Robert Middlekauff. Oxford, 1971.
MORGAN
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance, by Ron Chernow. Atlantic Monthly, 1990.
ROCKEFELLER
The Rockefeller Century, by John Ensor Harr & Peter J. Johnson. Scribner, 1988.
The Rockefeller Conscience: An American Family in Public & in Private, by John Ensor Harr & Peter J. Johnson. Scribner, 1991.
The Rockefellers: An American
Dynasty, by Peter Collier & David Horowitz. Holt, Rinehart & Winston,
1976.
The Rockefeller Women: Dynsasty of Piety, Privacy, and Service,
by Clarice Stasz. St. MArtin's, 1995.
ROOSEVELT
The Roosevelt Chronicles: The Story of a Great American Family, by Nathan Miller. Doubleday, 1979.
The Roosevelts: American Aristicrats, by Allen Churchill. Harper & Row, 1965.
The Roosevelts: An American Saga, by Peter Collier, with David Horowitz. Simon & Schuster, 1994.
STEINWAY
The Steinway Saga: An American Dynasty, by D. W. Fostle. Scribner, 1994.
TAFT
An American Family: The Tafts, 1678 to 1964, by Ishbel Ross. Greenwood, 1977, 1964.
TRUMP
The Trumps: Three Generations that Built an Empire, by Gwenda Blair. S&S, 2000.
VANDERBILT
Fortune's Children: the Fall of the House of Vanderbilt, by Arthur T. Vanderbilt II. Morrow, 1989.
The Vanderbilt Women: Dynasty of Wealth, Glamour & Tragedy, by Clarice Stasz. St. Martin's, 1991.
The Vanderbilts, by Jery E. Patterson. Harry N. Abrams, 1989.
WATSON
The Watson Dynasty: The Fiery Reign and Troubled Legacy of IBM's Founding Father and Son, by Richard S. Tedlow. HarBus, 2003.
WYETH
An American Vision: Three Generations of Wyeth Art, essays by James H. Duff et al. LB, 1987.
WHITNEY
Whitney Father, Whitney Heiress: Two Generations of One of America's Richest Families, by W. A. Swanberg, 1980.
The Whitneys: An Informal Portrait, 1635-1975, by Edwin P. Hoyt. Weybright & Talley, 1976.
ZANUCK
The Fox that Got Away: The Last Days of the Zanuck Dynasty at Twentieth-Century Fox, by Stephen M. Silverman. Stuart, 1988.
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