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Location	Call #	Volume	Status
Sherman Library	CT1097.W58 W38 2009		AVAILABLE

Author	Waugh, Alexander.
Title	The House of Wittgenstein : a family at war / Alexander Waugh.
OCLC	181599941
ISBN	9780385520607 (alk. paper)
	0385520603 (alk. paper)
Publisher	New York : Doubleday, 2009.
Description	x, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
LC Subject heading/s	Wittgenstein family.
	Intellectuals -- Austria -- Vienna -- Biography.
	Rich people -- Austria -- Vienna -- Biography.
	Eccentrics and eccentricities -- Austria -- Vienna -- Biography.
	Vienna (Austria) -- Intellectual life -- 19th century.
	Vienna (Austria) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-321) and index.
Contents	Family Tree -- A Dirty Thing to Do -- Nasty Mess -- The New Disorder -- Connection and Meltdown -- Postscript.
Summary	A portrait of the Wittgenstein family of Vienna traces the triumphs and vicissitudes of a star-crossed dynasty held together by a love of music yet torn apart by money, madness, conflicts of loyalty, and the cataclysmic upheaval of two world wars.

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