Landscape with Smokestacks: The Case of the Allegedly Plundered Degas
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Review "Howard Trienen's Landscape with Smokestacks is a lucid, engaging book that offers an unusual vantage on the world of art collecting and the heritage of the Holocaust. Most notably, it demonstrates why the muddy, boring, detailed truth of the law, that emerges from adversarial skirmishing, can prove more reliable than that of journalism, where the independent observers are sometimes too eager to capitulate to preestablished verities." —Scott Turow"Trienens not only exposes the weakness of the lawsuit, he decries simplistic media coverage and cautions against making tacit assumptions." —Booklist Read more About the Author Howard J. Trienens served a law clerk to Supreme Court chief justice Frederick M. Vinson from 1950 to 1952 before permanently joining the law firm of Sidley & Austin, where he became a partner in 1956. He has been a senior vice president and the general counsel for AT&T and a director of R. R. Donnelley & Sons and G. D. Searle and is currently a member of the Northwestern University Board of Trustees. He lives in Glencoe, Illinois. Read more
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Reveals to this writer the extensive network of European governments to recover missing valuables following WWII. Written by a lawyer who handled the case-a detailed account of available documents that date from 1940 to 1995, many recovered after WWII and presenting conflicting evidence. Well written.
