Beyond His Control: Memoir of a Disobedient Daughter

On March 25, 1969 Linda Hale Bucklin Learned Her Vivacious Mother Was Dead, Her Right Temple Blown Out By A Bullet From Her Father's Pistol. Was It Suicide Or Homicide? Standing Up To Her Father, Heir To The Broadway/hale Department Store Fortune, Linda Is Disinherited, Then Ostracized From The Family She Loves. When Her Father Marries His Mistress, Denise Minnelli, Stepmother To Liza Minnelli, The Family Unravels. Once A Child Of Privilege, Linda Recounts, In Vivid Detail, Her Extraordinary Life—summers On The Family's 10,000 Acre Ranch In Northern California, Hunting Trips To Africa And Alaska, High Society Vignettes Of A Fourth-generation San Francisco Family, And Her Father's Final Decision: To Leave The Entire Family Fortune To Minnelli. But Amid The Ashes, Linda Finds A New Strength: The Strength To Forgive The One Who Started It All. Reviews: ...a Jolting Memoir. ~the New York Post ...a Book You Won't Be Able To Put Down. ~david Patrick Columbia, New York Social Diary