If you are interested
in Hollywood gossip this is the audio book you’ve been
looking for. Although the title emphatically states it’s
about the Hiltons, it’s more of a saga than a biography.
The story begins and ends with Zsa Zsa Gabor as the protagonist.
While it traces the history of the Hilton family, pre-Paris
Hilton, it does not delve into the historic creative efforts
of Conrad Hilton’s rise to hotelier. It does give dates
and times and routes the historic moves in building the empire,
but it lacks the historic biographical information to make
it an in depth study.
The audio
book reader’s voice is pleasant and easy to follow,
and his Zsa Zsa impersonation is noticeable, but sometimes
distracting. The story is well researched and interesting.
The reader will learn many of the private thoughts behind
the famous hotelier’s dealings involving his son, Nicky’s,
destructive alcoholism and death, his dramatic marriage to
Zsa Zsa along with her daughter’s later lawsuit, his
daughter’s legitimacy issue, and many behind the scenes
feelings and opinions that shaped his life.
I enjoyed
the book. It is long and will definitely take some time to
get through it, but I think the reader will come away with
a good sense of the Hilton family and how it was shaped through
the years.
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