events that defined the family’s public life.
At first, I tried to contribute.
I organized charitable events, helped coordinate dinners, and used my financial background to streamline expenses for one of the family’s foundations.
Margaret thanked me in public and dismissed my work in private.
When a fundraising dinner raised more than its target, she told guests that her son had “inherited a natural talent for leadership.”
When I corrected an accounting discrepancy that would have cost the foundation thousands, she called me overly cautious.
And when Ethan’s business suffered
