Free Download Fortune and Folly: The Weird and Wonderful Life of the South’s Most Eccentric Millionaire (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPQQZZM2 | 2023 | 7 hours and 56 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 236 MB
Author: Sara A. H. Butler
Narrator: Tiffany Morgan
Briarcliff Mansion and the land it occupies are owned by Emory University, which refers to it as its "Briarcliff Campus." Fortune and Folly, in part, illuminates the largely lost story of how the mansion, and the entire surrounding neighborhood, got its name. But in order to understand the mansion, we have to understand the man who built it. Briarcliff Mansion once belonged to a man named Asa Candler, Jr.-also known as Buddie. The second son and namesake of Coca-Cola founder Asa Griggs Candler, Buddie was a wealthy real estate developer of great successes and greater failures.
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