Summary
"The unbelievable true story of Harrison Post--the enigmatic lover of one of the richest men in 1920s Hollywood--and the battle for a family fortune. In the booming 1920s, William Andrews Clark Jr. was one of the richest, most respected men in Los Angeles. The son of the mining tycoon known as "The Copper King of Montana," Clark launched the Los Angeles Philharmonic and helped create the Hollywood Bowl. He was also a man with secrets, including a lover named Harrison Post. A former salesclerk, Post enjoyed a lavish existence among Hollywood elites, but the men's money--and their homosexuality--made them targets, for the district attorney, their employees and, in Post's case, his own family. When Clark died suddenly, Harrison Post inherited a substantial fortune--and a wealth of trouble. From Prohibition-era Hollywood to Nazi prison camps to Mexico City nightclubs, Twilight Man tells the story of an illicit love and the battle over a family estate that would destroy one man's life. Harrison Post was forgotten for decades, but after a chance encounter with his portrait, Liz Brown, Clark's great-grandniece, set out to learn his story. Twilight Man is more than just a biography. It is an exploration of how families shape their own legacies, and the lengths they will go in order to do so"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Brown, Liz. Twilight man [New York, New York] : Penguin Books, [2021]
Contents
A train to Los Angeles, 1882
The bond
An education
Albert's choice
The wall
The mask
The copain
The library
Junior
The secretaries
The fluke
The picture of Will Clark
Buck Mangam's revenge
Snap
The guardian
Exile
Escape
Hellesylt
Mexico City
Trondheim
Grini
Laufen
The northern lights
The alien
Lake Street
The emperor's palace
"Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo"
Legacy
The picture of Harrison Post.