Pirate's Gold is story of a great American fortune, a man with the Midas touch, and his descendants who inherited more money than was good for them.
A small-town boy from Massachusetts, Henry Huttleston Hell-Hound Rogers helped build Standard Oil into the world's largest oil company, gaining renown as a notorious Wall Street pirate.
After he died, his children inherited $49,000,000--billions in today's money.
None of his descendants lived so large as Rogers' son, Colonel Henry Rogers Jr.
, and his two children, Millicent and Harry.
During the 1920s, the public was fascinated by the saga of Millicent's ill-fated marriage to Count Salm, the Austrian tennis champion with matinee idol good looks.
In the 1930s Harry's involvement in the death of an actress at a drunken party was front page news in every city in the country.
Pirate's Gold looks beneath the headlines to uncover the roots of these stories: the struggles over money and love, and the difficulties of living up to one's famous family name.
