Outrageous Fortunes

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9781429950497
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (54 download)

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Book Synopsis Outrageous Fortunes by : Daniel Altman

Download or read book Outrageous Fortunes written by Daniel Altman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Harvard-trained economist's startling predictions reveal critical challenges in the decades ahead, helping individuals, businesses, and governments to make smarter decisions As individuals, companies, and countries struggle to recover from the economic crisis, many are narrowly focused on forecasts for the next week, month, or quarter. Yet they should be asking what the global economy will look like in the years to come—where will the long-term risks and opportunities arise? These are the questions that Daniel Altman confronts in his provocative and indispensable book. The fate of the global economy, Altman argues, will be determined by deeper factors than those that move markets from moment to moment. His incisive analysis brings together hidden trends, societal pressures, and policy endgames to make twelve surprising but logical predictions about the years ahead. And his forecasts for the future raise a pressing question for today: With so many challenges awaiting us, are our political and economic institutions up to the task? Outrageous Fortunes tells which industries will grow, which economies will crumble, which investments will pay off, and where the next big crisis may occur. Altman's carefully reasoned text is an essential guide for the road ahead.

House of Outrageous Fortune

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451666217
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis House of Outrageous Fortune by : Michael Gross

Download or read book House of Outrageous Fortune written by Michael Gross and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Michael Gross’s new book…packs [in] almost as many stories as there are apartments in the building. The Jackie Collins of real estate likes to map expressions of power, money and ego… Even more crammed with billionaires and their exploits than 740 Park” (Penelope Green, The New York Times). With two concierge-staffed lobbies, a walnut-lined library, a lavish screening room, a private sixty-seat restaurant offering residents room service, a health club complete with a seventy-foot swimming pool, penthouses that cost almost $100 million, and a tenant roster that’s a roll call of business page heroes and villains, Fifteen Central Park West is the most outrageously successful, insanely expensive, titanically tycoon-stuffed real estate development of the twenty-first century. In this “stunning” (CNN) and “deliciously detailed” (Booklist, starred review) New York Times bestseller, journalist Michael Gross turns his gimlet eye on the new-money wonderland that’s sprung up on the southwest rim of Central Park. Mixing an absorbing business epic with hilarious social comedy, Gross “takes another gossip-laden bite out of the upper crust” (Sam Roberts, The New York Times), whichincludes Denzel Washington, Sting, Norman Lear, top executives, and Russian and Chinese oligarchs, to name a few. And he recounts the legendary building’s inspired genesis, costly construction, and the flashy international lifestyle it has brought to a once benighted and socially déclassé Manhattan neighborhood. More than just an apartment building, 15CPW represents a massive paradigm shift in the lifestyle of New York’s rich and famous—and is a bellwether of the city’s changing social and financial landscape.

All the Money in the World

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1448207819
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Book Synopsis All the Money in the World by : John Pearson

Download or read book All the Money in the World written by John Pearson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the most infamous incident involving the Getty family - now a major film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Williams and Oscar® Nominee Christopher Plummer Oil tycoon J. Paul Getty created the greatest fortune in America - and came close to destroying his own family in the process. Of his four sons who reached manhood, only one survived relatively unscathed. One killed himself, one became a drug-addicted recluse and the third had to bear the stigma all his life of being disinherited in childhood. The unhappiness continued into the next generation, with the name Getty, as one journalist put it, 'becoming synonymous for family dysfunction'. Getty's once favourite grandson John Paul Getty III was kidnapped by the Italian mafia who cut off his ear to raise a ransom and, after a lifetime of drink and drugs, became a paraplegic. His granddaughter Aileen has AIDS. And the Getty family itself has been torn apart by litigation over their poisoned inheritance. But did the disaster have to happen? John Pearson, who has specialized in biographies of families as varied as the Churchills, the British Royal Family, the Devonshires and the Krays, sets out to find the answer. The result, first published in 1995, is a fascinating saga of an extraordinary dynasty. He traces much of the trouble to the bizarre character of the avaricious, sex-obsessed billionaire, J. Paul Getty himself - and demonstrates how much of his behaviour has been repeated in succeeding generations. He describes the famous kidnapping of his grandson in graphic detail, revealing how the old man's attitude added considerably to the boy's sufferings. And he shows how the family has coped with the latest modern scourges: drugs and AIDS. For All the Money in the World is not a hopeless story. While some of the family have been damaged by the Getty legacy, others have saved themselves from disaster, most notably the cricket-loving philanthropist, J. Paul Getty Jr. Pearson's moving story of his recovery from drugs and deep personal tragedy shows that there is hope for future generations of this stricken family - and demonstrates that money can be used to buy survival and even happiness.

Outrageous Fortune

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ISBN 13 : 9780984310906
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Outrageous Fortune

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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250031370
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis Outrageous Fortune by : Anthony Russell

Download or read book Outrageous Fortune written by Anthony Russell and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his stunning memoir, Outrageous Fortune, Anthony Russell takes us inside his childhood growing up at Leeds Castle, with luxury and opulence few can imagine, and how he found his way in a changing society. "I was lucky with lineage. Money, and lots of it, appeared to grow on trees, especially those which adorned the Leeds Castle parkland. Ancestors with glowing titles and extraordinary accomplishments filled the history books, but there would be consequences for being handed everything of a material nature on a plate, with no clear indication of what one might be expected to do with such good fortune." Leeds Castle has long been hailed as the loveliest castle in the world. Originally built in the twelfth century as a Norman stronghold, the castle once housed Kings and Queens, but fell into disrepair for nearly a century, until Anthony Russell's grandmother, Lady Baillie, purchased it in 1926 and restored the fortress to its former glory. It was in the castle's fairytale setting, surrounded by a moat and acres of sprawling grounds, that Anthony spent his childhood in the 1950s. It was a life of spectacular beauty and privilege, but for a shy boy often lonely and fraught with the fear of breaking some unwritten rule of the Castle Way. As Anthony reveals in his extraordinarily vivid and frank memoir, such a childhood was perhaps not the best preparation for modern life beyond the castle's walls. By the end of the 1960s, the polite reserve of the Castle Way was starting to give way to unconventional music, manners, and social freedom-simultaneously alluring and alarming to a young man who had grown up in splendid isolation in a world that would soon be gone.

Outrageous Fortune

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Publisher : Field Day Publications
ISBN 13 : 0946755353
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (467 download)

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Book Synopsis Outrageous Fortune by : Joe Cleary

Download or read book Outrageous Fortune written by Joe Cleary and published by Field Day Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Ireland produce a more radical and ambitious literature in the straitened circumstances of the first half of the twentieth century than it has managed to do since it began to ‘modernize’ and become more affluent from the 1960s onwards? Has Irish modernism ceded place to a prevailing naturalism that seems gritty and tough-minded, but that is aesthetically conservative and politically self-thwarted? Does the fixation with ‘de Valera’s Ireland’ in recent narrative represent a necessary settling of accounts with a dark, abusive history or is it indicative of a worrying inability on the part of Irish artists and intellectuals to respond to the very different predicaments of the post-Cold War world? These are some of the questions addressed in Outrageous Fortune. Scanning literature, theatre, film and music, Joe Cleary probes the connections between capital, culture and criticism in modern Ireland. He includes readings of James Joyce and the Irish modernists, the naturalists Patrick Kavanagh, John McGahern and Edna O’Brien, and comments too on what he terms the ‘neo-naturalism’ of Marina Carr, Patrick McCabe and Martin McDonagh. He concludes with a provocative analysis of the cultural achievement of the Pogues.

Outrageous Fortune

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Publisher : London : Secker & Warburg
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Outrageous Fortune by : Roger Keyes

Download or read book Outrageous Fortune written by Roger Keyes and published by London : Secker & Warburg. This book was released on 1984 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Leopold III (born as Léopold Philippe Charles Albert Meinrad Hubertus Marie Miguel (French) or Leopold Filips Karel Albert Meinrad Hubertus Maria Miguel (Dutch) or Leopold Philipp Karl Albert Meinrad Hubertus Maria Miguel (German); 3 November 1901? 25 September 1983) reigned as King of the Belgians from 1934 until 1951, when he abdicated in favour of the heir apparent, his son Baudouin."--Wikipedia.

Outrageous Fortune

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Publisher : Spectra
ISBN 13 : 0553589857
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Book Synopsis Outrageous Fortune by : Tim Scott

Download or read book Outrageous Fortune written by Tim Scott and published by Spectra. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this outrageously funny, outrageously inventive debut, one of the most outrageously talented new writers to break onto the sci-fi scene in decades asks the most loaded question of all . . . “Don’t you hate it when this happens?” . . . that’s what the business card asks Jonny X67, dream architect to the rich and jaded. It’s all the thieves who stole his house left behind. And if that weren’t bad enough, a saleswoman named Caroline E61 drops from the sky to sell him a set of encyclopedias and won’t take no for an answer. Can his luck get any worse? In this rip-roaring roller-coaster ride through a brilliantly imagined future of paranoid absurdity, Jonny X will learn the answer soon enough when he falls afoul of a lunatic motorcycle gang nicknamed the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a relentless Belgian assassin, and his own irate girlfriend. Traversing a cityscape whose neighborhoods are organized by musical genres, running into joke-telling elevators and holographic computer viruses, Jonny is about to learn what a nightmare it’s going to be to get his old life back in a reality warping faster than the speed of the imagination. Outrageous Fortune heralds a marvelous new talent sure to be delightfully altering the minds of readers for years to come.

Outrageous Good Fortune

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Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 : 9780316116794
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (167 download)

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Book Synopsis Outrageous Good Fortune by : Michael Burke

Download or read book Outrageous Good Fortune written by Michael Burke and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1984 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Outrageous Fortune

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061146145
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (611 download)

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Book Synopsis Outrageous Fortune by : Tom Bower

Download or read book Outrageous Fortune written by Tom Bower and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise and fall of media tycoon Conrad Black and his journalist wife, Barbara Amiel, is one of the great stories of the modern business world. In Outrageous Fortune, London-based journalist Tom Bower reveals how Conrad and Lady Black used other people's money to finance a billionaire's lifestyle, winning friends and influence in London and New York along the way. Their story of overweening ambition and greed is a modern-day classic of hubris. Born into considerable wealth in Canada, Conrad Black bought and sold (but never effectively managed) several businesses, from mining and tractors to broadcasting companies and newspapers. In 1985 Black's holding com-pany, Hollinger, bought the Telegraph Group, the British newspaper publishing conglomerate. In the years that followed, Black additionally became the proprietor of the Chicago Sun-Times, the Jerusalem Post, and a host of other magazines and newspapers in the English-speaking world. In 1992 Conrad married Barbara Amiel, who later famously said, "I have an extravagance that knows no bounds." Besotted by his wife, he began living way beyond his means. Fabulous parties, jewelry, clothes, and multiple mansions followed, and by 2001 Black had renounced his Canadian citizenship—which he called "an impediment to my progress in another more amenable jurisdiction"—in order to become a life peer in the British House of Lords. But the scheming deceptive duo's lies came crashing down when, in November 2003, an American report accused Black of "outright fraud," "ethical corruption," and "corporate kleptocracy." Black was forced out as Hollinger's chief executive, and two years later he was charged with eight counts of fraud—allegations that he will vigorously deny at his trial in Chicago, beginning in March of 2007. Based on hundreds of interviews with bankers, politicians, journalists, mega-deal makers, and close friends of Conrad and Lady Black, Outrageous Fortune is packed with lively anecdotes and salacious gossip. It is a hugely enter-taining and engrossing account of gullibility in high places.

Outrageous Fortune

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0197530680
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Book Synopsis Outrageous Fortune by : William Ian Miller

Download or read book Outrageous Fortune written by William Ian Miller and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this book, William Ian Miller offers his reflections on the perverse consequences, indeed, often the opposite of intended effects, of so-called good things. Noted for his remarkable erudition, wit, and playful pessimism, Miller here ranges over topics from personal disasters to literary and national ones. Drawing on a truly immense store of knowledge encompassing literature, philosophy, theology, and history, he excavates the evidence of human anxieties around scarcity in all its forms (from scarcity of food to luck to where we stand in the eyes of others caught in a game of musical chairs we often do not even know we are playing). With wit and sensitivity, along with a large measure of fearless self-scrutiny, he points to and invites us to recognize the gloomy, neurotic, despondent tendencies of reasonably sentient human life. The book is a careful examination of negative beliefs, inviting an experience of bleak fellow-feeling among the author, the reader, and many a hapless soul across the centuries. Just what makes you more nervous, he asks, a run of good luck, or a run of bad?"--

Outrageous Fortune

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Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099550466
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Book Synopsis Outrageous Fortune by : Lulu Taylor

Download or read book Outrageous Fortune written by Lulu Taylor and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daisy Dangerfield has been brought up in the lap of luxury. Her father, Daddy Dangerfield, has given her the best of everything, she's not known a moment's doubt or worry. Until a shocking secret is revealed, and she is thrown out of the family with nothing but her dreams of revenge. Meanwhile on a rough council estate in East London, Chanelle has wanted to be a dancer her whole life. Dancing is the one thing that takes her out of the grim reality of her life with her alcoholic mother and she is determined to use any means possible to become successful, no matter how underhand her methods. Born on the same day Chanelle and Daisy's lives could not be more different. Until everything changes, and they discover they have more in common than they could ever have imagined.

Outrageous Fortune

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Publisher : Oratia Media Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1877514004
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (775 download)

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Book Synopsis Outrageous Fortune by : Rachel Lang

Download or read book Outrageous Fortune written by Rachel Lang and published by Oratia Media Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the hit TV series Outrageous Fortune, this outrageous family album introduce all the characters and their tips for a fulfilling life in the West, including recipes, love stories, defining moments and disasters. Complete with behind-the-scenes photos, actors' interviews, quiz, drinking game and episode summaries.

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504033302
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Outrageous Fortune by : Patricia Wentworth

Download or read book Outrageous Fortune written by Patricia Wentworth and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man survives a shipwreck—only to finds his memory wiped clean and a stranger at his bedside claiming to be his wife The Alice Arden was bound for Scotland until she hit a nasty current and was smashed to bits on the rocky cliffs off the coast of Sussex. A man believed to be a survivor of the shipwreck is found unconscious and taken to the hospital. Lost for almost thirty-six hours, the man lying in a strange bed has no memory of who he is. Yet images haunt him: a light swinging down in the fog, illuminating a string of enormous emeralds and pearls. And now a woman has come for him; Nesta Riddell claims that he’s her husband, Jimmy Riddell. Caroline Leigh suspects the man in question is her distant cousin, Jim Randal, who was supposed to be on the doomed steamer. With nothing but a torn scrap of paper, she embarks on a quest that takes her to a village in the English countryside. As Caroline searches for answers, the man she’s trying to save struggles to fill the gaps in his memory. But the more he remembers, the greater the danger he and Caroline face—because someone will do anything to retrieve a priceless cache of stolen jewels, someone who has killed before and is prepared to kill again.

The Fortunes of Wangrin

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Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253334299
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (342 download)

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Book Synopsis The Fortunes of Wangrin by : Amadou Hampaté Bâ

Download or read book The Fortunes of Wangrin written by Amadou Hampaté Bâ and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel on the evils of white colonialism in Africa. Set in French-ruled Mali, the hero is a young teacher who plays the white man's idea of a good Black in order to advance his career.

Foul Luck & Outrageous Fortune: A Candid Tell-All by a Larrikin Legend of Racing

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ISBN 13 : 9781925230147
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis Foul Luck & Outrageous Fortune: A Candid Tell-All by a Larrikin Legend of Racing by : Rick Hore-Lacy

Download or read book Foul Luck & Outrageous Fortune: A Candid Tell-All by a Larrikin Legend of Racing written by Rick Hore-Lacy and published by . This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rick Hore-Lacy, law-student-turned-horse-trainer who became an Aussie legend in the sport of horse racing. The outspoken larrikin caused a furore in the elite horse racing industry by breaking conventions with his vociferous opinions and infamous actions. Told with uncompromising honesty, this is a tale that will take you to the inner sanctum of the 'Sport of Kings' and into the heaving action of the most exciting wins of his 20 Group-One victories. A story that tells of criminal sabotage, crushing mistakes, outrageous success, and above all, indomitable Aussie spirit. "I regard Rick Hore-Lacy as Australia's (and possibly, the world's) best judge of a yearling. He has proven that season on season, buying an extremely limited number and every year producing an outstanding runner. He is without peer in the sale ring. As a trainer, he was refreshingly unconventional and enjoyed some great successes." - Gai Waterhouse "Rick Hore-Lacy is a wonderful horseman with a great eye for picking a yearling who would turn into a successful runner. We had a wonderful association over the years and a lot of luck with some outstanding horses like Redoute's Choice. It was an honour and a privilege to ride for him." - Jim Cassidy (Pumper) "To say Rick Hore-Lacy is a character is an understatement. I've known the man for 30 years or so and have always enjoyed talking with him on all manner of subjects. He's a man that's trained great sprinters, stayers, 2YOs and jumpers. His methods weren't always conventional but were always well thought through and generally very successful. His eye for a young horse is approaching legend status and his wit and good humour have reached it." - Lee Freedman

The Luck of Politics

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Publisher : Black Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1863957553
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (639 download)

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Book Synopsis The Luck of Politics by : Andrew Leigh

Download or read book The Luck of Politics written by Andrew Leigh and published by Black Inc.. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful look at chance and outrageous fortune In 1968, John Howard missed out on winning the state seat of Drummoyne by just 420 votes. Howard reflects: ‘I think back how fortunate I was to have lost.’ It left him free to stand for a safe federal seat in 1974 and become one of Australia’s longest-serving prime ministers. In The Luck of Politics, Andrew Leigh weaves together numbers and stories to show the many ways luck can change the course of political events. This is a book full of fascinating facts and intriguing findings. Why is politics more like poker than chess? Does the length of your surname affect your political prospects? What about your gender? And who was our unluckiest politician? Charles Griffiths served as the Labor member for Shortland for 23 years. It was an unusually long career, but alas, his service perfectly coincided with federal Labor’s longest stint out of power: 1949 to 1972! From Winston Churchill to George Bush, Margaret Thatcher to Paul Keating, this book will persuade you that luck shapes politics – and that maybe, just maybe, we should avoid the temptation to revere the winners and revile the losers.