Fortune and Folly - 9780820365237

Fortune and FollyThe Weird and Wonderful Life of the South's Most Eccentric Millionaire\nAuthor(s): Sara A. H. Butler\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Georgia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Georgia Press\nISBN-13: 9780820365237, 978-0820365237\nSynopsis\nNestled in the outskirts of Atlanta, in a suburb called Druid Hills, lies Briarcliff Mansion. It sits on Briarcliff Road in the Briarcliff neighborhood, surrounded by strip malls and business with Briarcliff in their names. The mansion and the land it occupies are owned by Emory University, which refers to it as its Briarcliff Campus. Fortune and Folly, in part, illuminates the largely lost story of how the mansion, and the entire surrounding neighborhood, got its name. But in order to understand the mansion, we have to understand the man who built it.\n\nBriarcliff Mansion once belonged to a man named Asa Candler, [url] Buddie as friends and family knew him. The second son and namesake of Coca-Cola founder .