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Author : Joseph Jacobs Thorndike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517362341
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (623 download)
Download or read book The Very Rich written by Joseph Jacobs Thorndike and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Russell Simmons
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1592406181
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)
Download or read book Super Rich written by Russell Simmons and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular entrepreneur explains that true happiness comes not from wealth but from inner contentment and shares personal stories of his own rise to success and how he never failed to remain grounded during the process.
Author : Polly Horvath
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143198629
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book Very Rich written by Polly Horvath and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Newbery Honor-- and National Book Award--winning author Polly Horvath comes another magical novel featuring a time machine, money, food and lots of family. Ten-year-old Rupert Brown comes from an ordinary family. They live in a small house in the poorest section of Steelville, Ohio, and have little money or food. So when Rupert inadvertently finds himself spending Christmas at the house of Turgid River -- the richest boy in town -- he is blown away to discover a whole other world, including all the food he can eat and wonderful prizes that he wins when the family plays games, prizes he hopes to take home to his family so they can have Christmas presents for the very first time. But this windfall is short-lived when Rupert loses it all in one last game and goes home empty-handed. Each member of the Rivers family feels guilty about what happened and, unbeknownst to each other, tries to make it up to Rupert in their own unique way, taking him on one unlikely adventure after another.
Author : Max Gunther
Publisher : Harriman House Limited
ISBN 13 : 0857199560
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (571 download)
Download or read book The Very, Very Rich and How They Got That Way (Harriman Classics) written by Max Gunther and published by Harriman House Limited. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Max Gunther’s classic study of the super rich - now back in a new edition. The Very, Very Rich and How They Got That Way provides revealing insights into the intriguing world of big money, recounting the spectacular success stories of 15 people who made it to the very, very top. In 1972, Max Gunther invited readers to take a journey with him through a gallery of America's most prominent millionaires. The inhabitants framed here are by no means merely ordinary millionaires, though - the minimum qualifying standard to be considered for inclusion was ownership of assets valued at $100 million or more (the equivalent of $650 million today). This classic is now nearly 50 years old but its value endures, since the key steps on the route to wealth do not change with time. These secrets can be learned from, adapted and applied by anyone today.
Author : Ralph Nader
Publisher : Seven Stories Press
ISBN 13 : 1609800478
Total Pages : 671 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (98 download)
Download or read book "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!" written by Ralph Nader and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2011-01-04 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the cozy den of the large but modest house in Omaha where he has lived since he started on his first billion, Warren Buffett watched the horrors of Hurricane Katrina unfold on television in early September 2005. . . . On the fourth day, he beheld in disbelief the paralysis of local, state, and federal authorities unable to commence basic operations of rescue and sustenance, not just in New Orleans, but in towns and villages all along the Gulf Coast. . . He knew exactly what he had to do. . ." So begins the vivid fictional account by political activist and bestselling author Ralph Nader that answers the question, "What if?" What if a cadre of superrich individuals tried to become a driving force in America to organize and institutionalize the interests of the citizens of this troubled nation? What if some of America's most powerful individuals decided it was time to fix our government and return the power to the people? What if they focused their power on unionizing Wal-Mart? What if a national political party were formed with the sole purpose of advancing clean elections? What if these seventeen superrich individuals decided to galvanize a movement for alternative forms of energy that will effectively clean up the environment? What if together they took on corporate goliaths and Congress to provide the necessities of life and advance the solutions so long left on the shelf by an avaricious oligarchy? What could happen? This extraordinary story, written by the author who knows the most about citizen action, returns us to the literature of American social movements—to Edward Bellamy, to Upton Sinclair, to John Steinbeck, to Stephen Crane—reminding us in the process that changing the body politic of America starts with imagination.
Author : Dixon Long
Publisher : Booksurge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781439230565
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book A Very Rich Man written by Dixon Long and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This family drama explores the private lives of a wealthy and socially prominent family living in Cleveland. Danny and Amy Wainwright, a brother and sister, have escaped a dysfunctional upbringing and made new lives and careers in San Francisco. They are sucked back into a vortex of painful memories after their father, who heads a successful investment firm, suffers a cerebral aneurism, is hospitalized and on the verge of death. Subsequent events show that neither his life nor those of his wife, Elaine, have been what they seem. Danny and Amy discover a trail of secrets that threatens to shatter the peace of their new lives. The novel is in the great tradition of family drama from Austen to Thomas and Tom Wolfe.
Author : Adrienne Monnier
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803282278
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (822 download)
Download or read book The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier written by Adrienne Monnier and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920s Paris, Adrienne Monnier provided a focal point for the writers and artists drawn to the Left Bank. Her bookstore in the Rue de l’Odeon was aptly called La Maison des Amis des Livres. Monnier took a simple though sophisticated delight in language, books, art, music, nature, friendship, and food. Her 1940 journal, written as Paris fell to the Germans and originally published in 1976, is a rich tapestry of essays, reviews, and personal recollections. She goes to lunch with Colette, visits T. S. Eliot, befriends Joyce, argues with Breton, takes walks with Gide, publishes her elegant reviews, and reflects on the ballet, opera, Steinberg drawings, Marlon Brando and Alec Guinness movies, and the country of her birth.
Author : Robert F. Dalzell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300188889
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Good Rich and What They Cost Us written by Robert F. Dalzell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book holds up for scrutiny a great paradox at the core of the American Dream: a passionate belief in the principle of democracy combined with an equally passionate celebration of the creation of wealth. Americans treasure an open, equal society, yet we also admire those fortunate few who amass riches on a scale that undermines social equality. In today's era of "vulture capitalist" hedge fund managers, internet fortunes, and a growing concern over inequality in American life, should we cling to both parts of the paradox? Can we?/div To understand the problems that vast individual fortunes pose for democratic values, Robert Dalzell turns to American history. He presents an intriguing cast of wealthy individuals from colonial times to the present, including George Washington, one of the richest Americans of his day, the "robber baron" John D. Rockefeller, and Oprah Winfrey, for whom extreme wealth is inextricably tied to social concerns. Dalzell uncovers the sources of contradictory attitudes toward the rich, how the very rich have sought to be perceived as "good rich," and the facts behind the widespread notion that wealth and generosity go hand in hand. In a thoughtful and balanced conclusion, the author explores the cost of our longstanding attitudes toward the rich./divDIV DIV DIVAmong the case studies in America's Good Rich:/divDIVPuritan merchant Robert Keayne/divDIVGeorge Washington/divDIVManufacturers Amos & Abbot Lawrence/divDIVOil magnate John D. Rockefeller/divDIVBill Gates/divDIVWarren Buffet/divDIVSteve Jobs/divDIVOprah Winfrey/div
Author : Michael Mechanic
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982127228
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Jackpot written by Michael Mechanic and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A senior editor at Mother Jones dives into the lives of the extremely rich, showing the fascinating, otherworldly realm they inhabit-and the insidious ways this realm harms us all"--
Author : Paul West
Publisher : Overlook Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Very Rich Hours of Count Von Stauffenberg written by Paul West and published by Overlook Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called one of the most original talents in American fiction by The New York Times Book Review, Paul West is a continuously surprising and satisfying writer, whose oeuvre stands as one of the most important in American literature in recent decades. With these reissues, Overlook and Tusk continue its program of publishing the brilliantly lyrical fiction of Paul West.In The Universe, and Other Fictions, Paul West embraces galaxies and molecular events, creating singular fiction as combustible and astonishing as Creation itself. In The Very Rich Hours of Count von Stauffenberg, West weaves a brilliant tapestry of fact and imagination about the ill-fated attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler. In the dark literary thriller, The Women of Whitechapel and Jack the Ripper, West brilliantly recasts the Jack the Ripper story, drawing on up-to-date research and his own dazzling imagination to plumb the lower depths of Victorian England.
Author : Kenneth J. Spink
Publisher : Xulon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781662804755
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book A Very Rich Man: The Life and Legacy of a Country Doctor and His Wife written by Kenneth J. Spink and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He was a WWII Navy veteran from Rochester, NY. She was a talented musician from Castile, NY. They married in Chicago, Illinois before starting out in Denton, Texas. He eventually became a doctor serving a rural community in Southwestern New York State. Their marriage has lasted seven and a half decades while raising twelve children who in turn gave them fifty-three grandchildren and sixty-eight great-grandchildren.Here is a captivating story, rich in family life and remarkable history. Travel into this rural town, observe the unique doctor's office in the family home, and witness medical emergencies as they occurred in the home, the office, and the hospital. Discover the newly unveiled narrative of this heroic country doctor and his family whose heritage spans three centuries while amassing more than one-hundred and thirty offspring! Kenneth J. Spink is a husband, father, grandfather, pastor, author, professor, and conference speaker. He is the seventh of twelve children born to Dr. and Mrs. Stephen A. Spink, about whom this book is written. He and his wife Debbie, reside near Cleveland, Ohio where he serves as senior pastor of Berea Baptist Church. Previous books which he has authored are Prayer Force, and A Love Story.
Author : Dori Carter
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590513290
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book We Are Rich written by Dori Carter and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The little, leafy town of Rancho Esperanza has been a perfect place to live for over a century–a bastion of good, solid, Anglo-Saxon, Republican money. These founding fathers built their gracious estates and country club and fondly called their town, “Ohio by the Sea.” There was only one traffic light and time seemed to stop at the freeway off ramp. Then came the Clinton years and the invasion of the New American Ruling Class: New York hedge fund managers, Hollywood producers, and Silicon Valley billionaires. Almost overnight, real estate prices quadruple, horse pastures vanish, tuna tartare and arugula appear on every menu, and a Democratic congresswoman is elected by a landslide. The Old Guard aristocrats of yesterday are now irrelevant and the only power they have is keeping the Kornblatts out of their country club. Twelve characters with distinctly different voices tell their tales of lust and longing spanning the years from World War II to the present–each story a piece of the jigsaw puzzle. The pieces all fit together until the secrets and lies, guarded for generations, are revealed, changing everything we thought was true about Rancho Esperanza and the people who live there. Written as a novel in stories, Dori Carter’s social satire gets into the hearts and souls of her characters, and presents a fresh look at our attitudes toward money and the ever-shifting nature of status in America. From the Hardcover edition.
Author : Jean McGarry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Very Rich Hours written by Jean McGarry and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chrystia Freeland
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101595949
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Plutocrats written by Chrystia Freeland and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Financial Times Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but recently what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Forget the 1 percent—Plutocrats proves that it is the wealthiest 0.1 percent who are outpacing the rest of us at breakneck speed. Most of these new fortunes are not inherited, amassed instead by perceptive businesspeople who see themselves as deserving victors in a cutthroat international competition. With empathy and intelligence, Plutocrats reveals the consequences of concentrating the world’s wealth into fewer and fewer hands. Propelled by fascinating original interviews with the plutocrats themselves, Plutocrats is a tour de force of social and economic history, the definitive examination of inequality in our time.
Author : Grant Cardone
Publisher : Grant Cardone
ISBN 13 : 0990355454
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Millionaire Booklet written by Grant Cardone and published by Grant Cardone. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I want to help you reach millionaire status, even get rich, if you believe that you deserve to be the person in the room that writes the check for a million dollars, ten million or even 100 million—let’s roll.
Author : Hervé Kempf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book How the Rich are Destroying the Earth written by Hervé Kempf and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A best seller in France, and already translated into Spanish, Italian, Greek, and Korean, Hervé Kempf'sHow the Rich Are Destroying the Earth now appears in its first English edition. Bringing to bear more than twenty years of experience as an environmental journalist, Kempf describes the invincibility that many of the world's wealthy feel in the face of global warming, and how their unchecked privilege is thwarting action on the single most vexing problem facing our world.In this important primer on the link between global ecology and the global economy, Kempf makes the following observations: First, that the planet's ecological situation is growing ever worse, despite the efforts of millions of engaged citizens around the world. And second, despite environmentalists' emphasis that "we're all in the same boat," the world's economic elites--who continue to benefit by plundering the environment--have access to "lifeboats" that insulate them from the resulting catastrophes.Societies have not been able to effectively combat the expanding ecological crisis because it is intimately linked to the social crisis in which the ruling form of capitalism has been organized to impede democratic initiatives. This link explains the failure to make progress against the greatest emergency of our time, because in this relationship the oligarchy plays an essential and destructive role. For this reason, solving the ecological crisis depends on disrupting the power of the world's elite.We cannot understand the entwined ecological and social crises, Kempf argues, if we don't see them as the two sides of the same disaster--a disaster that comes from a system piloted by a dominant social strata that has no drive other than greed, no ideal other than conservatism, no dream other than technology. But Kempf also calls for measured optimism: "Despite the scale of the challenges that await us, solutions are emerging and--faced with the sinister prospects the oligarchs promote--the desire to remake the world is being reborn."
Author : Iain Hay
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783474041
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich written by Iain Hay and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fewer than 100 people own and control more wealth than 50 per cent of the world’s population. The Handbook on Wealth and the Super-Rich is a landmark multidisciplinary evaluation of both the lives and lifestyles of the super-rich, as well as the processes that underpin super-wealth generation and its unequal distribution. Drawing on international case studies, leading experts from across the social sciences offer 22 accessible and coherently organized chapters, which critically analyse a range of topics including: • the legitimacy of extreme wealth from a moral economic perspective • biographies of illicit super-wealth • London’s housing markets • how the very wealthy fly • the environmental consequences of super-rich lives • crafting immigration policies to attract the rich. Students and scholars studying a host of topics such as development studies, economics, geography, history, political science and sociology will find this book eminently engaging. It will also be of great interest to public commentators, charitable organizations and NGOs concerned with wealth and income distributions.
