All in the Family:
America's Dynasties


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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