In his day, J. Paul Getty was known as "the richest man in America." James Reginato's biography, Growing Up Getty, is an exhaustive account of how the rich are different from most people.

BIOGRAPHY. GROWING UP GETTY by James Reginato (Gallery £22.92, 336pp). When he was 22, in 1914, J. Paul Getty's father gave him $10,000 (the equivalent of £250,000 today) to invest in the oil ...