Savage Grace: The True Story of Fatal Relations in a Rich and Famous American Family

A spellbinding tale of money and madness incest and matricide Savage Grace is the saga of Brooks and Barbara Baekeland -- beautiful rich worldly -- and their handsome gentle son Tony. Alternately neglected and smothered by his parents he was finally driven to destroy the whole family in a violent chain of events. Savage Grace unfolds against a glamorous international background (New York London Paris Italy Spain); features a nonpareil cast of characters (including Salvador Dalí James Jones the Astors the Vanderbilts and European nobility); and tells the doomed Baekelands story through remarkably candid interviews private letters and diaries not to mention confidential hospital State Department and prison documents. A true-crime classic it exposes the envied lives of the rich and beautiful and brilliantly illuminates the darkest corners of the American Dream.