Author Name: Goldsmith, Barbara
Title: Johnson V. Johnson
Book Condition: Good.
ISBN Number: 0394560434 / 9780394560434
Seller ID: 1124B626121
Hardcover. Stated 1st edition hardcover with dustjacket 1987 Knopf. LIBRARY BOOKSALE INKSTAMP on last blank page. Otherwise very clean; pages bright; binding tight. Only light wear. 285pp, B/W photos, family tree. Language: English. 'When J. Seward Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune, died at 87 in 1983, his will left virtually everything to his third wife, Basia, 42 years his junior. Johnson's six children (by his first two wives) angrily instituted what would become the longest and most expensive will contest in U.S. history. Journalist Goldsmith sat through the entire trial and spent countless hours interviewing family members and attorneys. The first parts of the book trace the family's turbulent history; the last concerns the trial itself. What emerges is a larger-than-life saga of greed, corruption, and decadence that becomes almost overwhelming at times.'--Jack Ray, Library Journal, 1987.
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