From the Vanderbilts' stupendous Biltmore and the Rockefellers' Kykuit to the Duponts' museum Winterthur and William Randolph Hearst's legendary San Simeon, American country houses evoke the grandeur
Reading like a history of Western civilization, this biography of a small British city begins in Roman times, when the town on the Thames housed a mysterious temple, and follows two thousand years of
