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Dewey Decimal Number: 364.15230924 EAN: 9780440175766 ISBN: 0440175763 Label: Dell Manufacturer: Dell Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 10 Publication Date: July 01, 1986 Publisher: Dell Release Date: July 01, 1986 Studio: Dell Related Items:
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 Rating: - The Best of Its KindTo be fair about it, I should say that I have not read a lot of true stories of bloodshed and sleaze and incest among the very-very rich, but this is the best that I have ever read. It is very well-written and superbly researched, and paints as full a picture of the glamorous and twisted life of the Baekeland family as one could possibly have hoped for. Grandpa invented the first really useful plastic, and his heirs proceeded to slide into a life of riches, luxury, and moral decay. I liked this ... Read More Rating: - Baekeland's Resin: Miracle Material, Plastic PeopleThis is a True story of tempestuous, incestuous Crime. Back in 1907, Belgian emigrant Leo Hendrik Baekeland created an early plastic he named Bakelite, the make-almost-anything proto-plastic which still brings joy to the hearts of Martha Stewart's flock and Diasporate Ebayers everywhere. Bakelite made Baekeland very, very rich - such that his heirs were very, very idly rich. In 1972, one of the Bakelite babies' babies' baby murdered his mummy (a mere Baekeland by marriage.) Authors ... Read More 
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