Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend - Softcover

"This is the first full nonfiction account of the Ponzi scheme, and Mitchell Zuckoff . . . has made it as agreeable as the 'smiling, cane-twirling banty rooster of a man' behind it. . . . A history that is both solid and entertaining."
-Chicago Sun-Times

"In his charming book . . . Mitchell Zuckoff vividly recounts the story of Charles Ponzi [with] impressive research and elegant writing."
-Boston Sunday Globe

"Thanks to Mitchell Zuckoff . . . who has given Ponzi exactly what he deserves: a thorough account of his life and a candid but sympathetic portrait."
-The Washington Post Book World

"Zuckoff's biography of this charming rogue . . . provokes our wonder precisely because his subject is so brazen-and yet so naively captive to his own illusions."
-The Wall Street Journal

A close-up look at the career of the colorful and charismatic scoundrel who developed the most famous scheme in the history of American finance explains how, in 1920, Charles Ponzi successfully raked in millions of dollars from would-be investors by promising them he could double their investments in three months. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.