Savage Grace Author:Natalie Robins, Steven M. L. Aronson A spellbinding tale of money and madness, incest and matricide, Savage Grace is the saga of Brooks and Barbara Baekeland -- heirs to the Bakelite plastics fortune -- and their handsome, gentle son, Tony. Alternately neglected and smothered by his parents, he was finally driven to destroy the whole family in a shockingly violent chain of events.
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Unfolding against a glamorous international background, Savage Grace tells the doomed Baekelands' story through remarkably candid interviews, private letters and diaries, as well as confidential hospital and prison records. A true crime classic, it expose the harrowing truth behind the envied lives of the rich and beautiful.« less