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Book Review of Privilege: The Enigma of Sasha Bruce

Privilege: The Enigma of Sasha Bruce
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Heiress to Tradgedy, Sasha Bruce was the daughte of distinguished U.S. ambassador David K.E. Bruce. Brought up in the embassies of PAris, Bonn and London she had everything to live for; weallth, beauty, and the limitless opportunity her social status gave her. At Radcliff she was among the best and brightest, yet she turned her talent for art history to smuggling and forgery and used her money and looks to attract unscrupulous men, swindlers and scoundrels. And, before her 13th birthday at the Bruces family estate in Charlott COunty Virginia she was found lying ina pook of her own blood, dying from a bullet wound to her head. The story behind Sasha Bruces death is extraoordinary and utterly gripping tale of money and power, bizarre intrigue and misguided passion.....