Lives in Trust: The Fortunes of Dynastic Families in Late Twentieth-Century America

Abstract

Part 1 The maturing and dissolution of dynastic organizations: the domestication of capital and the capitalization of family the fiduciary in American family dynasties generation-skipping trusts and parent-child relations the hunts, silver, and dynastic families in America. Part 2 Dynastic sensibilities: the problem of the unseen world of wealth for the rich the ethnographic study of notable American families the dynastic uncanny the making of pious dynastic endgame - Sallie Bingham and the fall of the house of Bingham. Part 3 Legacy: European high culture in Los Angeles - the J.Paul Getty Trust as artificial curiosity inside a dynastic simulacrum the empty tomb - the making of dynastic identity.