Jerry Oppenheimer's book, Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty recounts the story of the family made unimaginably wealthy by Band-Aids and baby powder. There are endless stories of at least four generations and there isn't one noble person in the lot. Extravagances we can't fathom, the worst of family relationships, runaway addictions, brutally raw power. They were, and are, rotting in their wealth.

For instance, when Robert Wood Johnson Jr. died, the book said he left an "immense fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars in Johnson and Johnson stock to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation." But his "last words to one of his nurses before he died shortly after six p.m. on January 30, 1968, at the age of seventy-four, were: 'I have millions and I would give everything I have if someone could make me well.'"