Life at Winterthur: A Du Pont Family Album

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Summary: Kudos for Maggie Lidz
Review: A wonderful insight to the lives of the Du Ponts revealed in an easy to read format

Kudo to Maggie Lidz

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Summary: Better than peeping through a keyhole
Review: I just got my copy and am already seduced by the rich collection of photographs of my favorite Dupont family. Maggie Lidz obviously knows her Dupont family history and is amazing me with details that I had never read before anywhere else. I can't wait to read the rest. This book has definately made me want to go back to visit the Winterthur chateau with a whole new perspective. The whole family and place really comes to life with this book.

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Summary: Extraordinary and insightful
Review: Life at Winterthur is a compound of anecdote, symphony and nightmare. Its mechanics resemble those of a dream that has freed the author from the necessities of common logic and has enabled her to compress all periods of history, all phases of individual and economic development, into a circular design, of which every part is beginning, middle and end.

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Summary: Extraordinary and insightful
Review: Now that we know, through Maggie Lidz's copious family album, the complex use to which the Duponts put their experiences, possessions and obsessions, the value of being in close touch with their immediate world becomes not merely tangential, as it once seemed, but central to an understanding of them.