From Conrad to Paris: A Drama of Wealth, Power, and Privilege
by Jerry Oppenheimer
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Published in USA
Nov 2006
304 pages
Genre: Biography/Memoir
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This intimate, shocking--and thoroughly unauthorized--portrait of the Hiltons chronicles the family’s amazing odyssey from poverty and obscurity to glory and glamour.
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"The reader will gasp to learn of the Hilton men's sexual athletics and shudder to hear that such a privileged family could be so shockingly uneducated and uncouth." - PW.
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