James Goldborough is a veteran journalist and worked for many years as a columnist at the Union-Tribune. "Misfortunes" has several themes, one is the combining of industry, land, and politics in the same family. A second is the east-west contrast, following a family to California after more than two centuries in the east. Above all, it is a story of the effects of unlimited inherited wealth within the family, made during the so-called Gilded Age.
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