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Privileged Son: Otis Chandler and the Rise and Fall of the L.A. Times Dynasty Alys Clare some successfully and others notHere is the riveting story of how a second rate newspaper rose to national greatness, only to become a casualty of war a civil war within the family that owned it. Told in a hard edged, investigative style, it spans the American Century, from 1884, when the Chandler family gained control of the just born daily, through April 2000, when they sold it to the Tribune Company. Above all, Privileged Son chronicles the life of Otis Chandler, the Times' chief