After the Ball

Set in 1905, against a backdrop of magnificence, excess and corrupting glamour, After the Ball's themes are stunningly fresh: greed and chicanery, flawed love between fathers and sons, and contradictory American attitudes about wealth.Glamorous, cultured and ambitious - but fatally young and naive - James Hazen Hyde was twenty-three when he inherited the majority shares in the billion-dollar Equit...