Tag: Louis Auchincloss

• Portrait in Brownstone – Louis Auchincloss

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  August 25, 2025

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  Book reviews

  Louis Auchincloss (1917-2010) was born into a privileged family of businessmen, lawyers and stockbrokers. Though, according to him, the Auchincloss menfolk owed their wealth, not to inheritance, but to advantageous marriages and their personal acumen. He studied at Yale but, midway through his degree, transferred to read law at the University of Virginia, eventually graduating…