cover image The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty

The Patriarch: The Rise and Fall of the Bingham Dynasty

Susan E. Tifft. Pocket Books, $12 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-671-75595-9

This enthralling, prodigiously researched saga evenhandedly sorts out several generations of an antagonistic Kentucky clan whose progressive newspaper empire crumbled in 1986. (Mar.)