Four Winds Press
PROJECT DETAILS
​
Category: Biography/History
Release Date: August 2021
Print Length: 400 pages
Trim Size: 8" x 8"
​
• Full Color •
100s of Photos & illustrations
​
FORMATS
​
Paperback, $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-940423-16-6
​
Ebook, $14.99
ISBN: 978-1-94023-17-3
ABOUT THE BOOK
​​
A Gilded Age Saga of Family, Money, and (Maybe) Murder!
​
Pirate's Gold is the story of a great American fortune, a man with the Midas touch, and his descendants who inherited more money than was good for them. A small-town boy from Massachusetts, Henry Huttleston "Hell-Hound" Rogers helped build Standard Oil into the world’s largest oil company, gaining renown as a notorious Wall Street “pirate.” After he died, his children inherited $49,000,000—billions in today's money.
None of his descendants lived so large as Rogers’ son, Colonel Henry Rogers Jr., and his two children, Millicent and Harry. During the 1920s, the public was fascinated by the saga of Millicent’s ill-fated marriage to Count Salm, the Austrian tennis champion with matinee idol good looks. In the 1930s Harry’s involvement in the death of an actress at a drunken party was front page news in every city in the country.
"Pirate's Gold" looks beneath the headlines to uncover the roots of these stories: the struggles over money and love, and the difficulties of living up to one’s famous family name
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andrew Coe
​
Andrew Coe is a writer and independent scholar. He is a direct descendant of Henry Huttleston Rogers, one of the main subjects in his latest book, Pirate's Gold: A Gilded Age Saga of Family, Money and (Maybe) Murder.
Andrew and his wife, Jane Ziegelman, are co-authors of A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression, which won a James Beard award. His Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States was a finalist for a James Beard award and named one of the best food books of the year by the Financial Times. He has written articles and blog posts on everything from the ancient history of foie gras to indulging in the tastiest bread in New York City. He has appeared in documentaries such as the National Geographic Channel's Eat: The Story of Food and The Search for General Tso. Andrew and his wife live in Brooklyn with their two children.
​​
​​
