The inheritors : a study of America's great fortunes and what happened to them / John William Tebbel.

Cont.: The Accumulators. A preface to wealth -- The robber barons revisited -- The Wasters. Getting and spending: The Astors -- The Dodges of Detroit, and elsewhere -- Tobacco society: Dukes and Reynolds, with a side trip to Barbara Hutton -- Royal family: The Vanderbilts -- A bouquet of Eastern inheritors: Ryans, Goulds, Stotesburys, Belmonts and Wideners -- Last of the big spenders: William Randoph Hearst -- Conservators and expanders. The great conservators: Du Ponts -- Expansion in Chicago: McCormicks and Fileds -- Conservation in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh: Drexels, Mellons, Phippses. Fricks -- Conservation in New York: Guggenheims and Morgans -- Lords and ladies bountiful. The care and feeding of foundations -- Philosophies of giving: Carnegie, Rockefellers, Harknesses, Rosenwald and Fords -- Some meditations on the state of wealth in America today.