Traces the history of the Guggenheim family, one of the richest, most philanthropic and influential families in history, from the arrival of Meyer Guggenheim in the United States in 1848 to the present.

Meyer and Barbara--1828-1905: Founding an American dynasty: Out of the ghetto -- Haven City -- Roasted pigeons do not fly into one's mouth -- Bonanza in Colorado -- Conquest of Mexico -- Struggle for power -- Googs of New York -- Death of a patriarch -- Lords of the earth--1905-1923: Building the Guggenheim Empire: On their own -- Guggenmorgans and Morganheims -- Mining the globe -- Harvest of war -- Great schism -- Seven brothers and two hundred fifty millions--1918-1959: On the uses of wealth: Fortune to spend -- Isaac: On daughtering out -- Daniel and Florence: First step into space -- Murry and Leonie: Chilean nitrates and the children of New York -- Solomon's second spring -- King Solomon's Museum -- Benjamin: On Dropping out, Part I -- Senator Simon, or democracy in America -- All Simon's sons -- William, or Gatenby Williams: On dropping out, Part II -- Rebels and angels--1923-1977: Fourth generation: Empire in decline -- Colonel Bob -- Ambassador Harry: Guggenado and Machadoheim -- Peggy: Liberated in Europe -- Peggy and Guggenheim Jeune -- Peggy in New York: Ernst, Pollock, and art of this century -- Harold Loeb: The way it was -- Gladys Guggenheim Straus: Carrying on -- Quieter ones: Edmond and William, Jr. -- King Solomon's daughters -- Benjamin's other daughter -- Peggy in Venice: Last Dogaressa -- Harry the Magnificent: Legacies -- Harry the Magnificent: Glorification -- Survivors--1945-1978: Fifth and sixth generations: After Harry: Family in Fragments -- Peter O. Lawson-Johnson: The Anointed -- California Guggenheims: Bob, Jr. and Daniel M.: New beginnings -- Roger W. Straus, Jr., Publisher -- Iris Love: Bonanza on Knidos -- William Guggenheim III: Amen -- Genealogical tables -- Notes and sources -- Bibliography -- Index.