Bright Flows the River — Taylor Caldwell

He was a man who had everything -- money, power, status.

He had built an empire out of a worthless scrap of farmland, rising from the wrong side of the tracks to move gracefully within the inner circles of the very rich: the American dream came true for him; now it was turning into a nightmare...

Then, one night, Guy Jerald tried to kill himself in his car. Suddenly he was forced to come to terms with what he'd been and what he'd become...