Alger in A New World

Coulter, Ann: TREASON: LIBERAL TREACHERY FROM THE COLD WAR TO THE WAR ON TERRORISM, New York Crown Publishing Group 2003
ISBN: 1-4000-5030-8 Brand New Condition

<B> Liberals' loyalty to the United States is off-limits as a subject of political debate. Why is the relative patriotism of the two parties the only issue that is out of bounds for rational discussion?? <P> In a stunning follow-up to her number one bestseller 'Slander' , leading conservative pundit Ann Coulter contends that liberals have been wrong on every foreign policy issue, from the fight against Communism at home and abroad, the Nixon and the Clinton presidencies, and the struggle with the Soviet empire right up to today's war on terrorism. <P> 'Liberals have a preternatural gift for always striking a position on the side of treason', says Coulter. 'Everyone says liberals love America, too. No, they don't.' <P> From Truman to Kennedy to Carter to Clinton, America has contained, appeased, and retreated, often sacrificing America's best interests and security. With the fate of the world in the balance, liberals should leave the defense of the nation to conservatives. Reexamining the sixty-year history of the Cold War and beyond-including the career of Senator Joseph McCarthy, the Whittaker Chambers-Alger Hiss affair, Ronald Reagan's challenge to Mikhail Gorbachev to ?tear down this wall,? the Gulf War, and our present war on terrorism-Coulter reveals how liberals have been horribly wrong in all their political analyses and policy prescriptions. McCarthy, exonerated by the Venona Papers if not before, was basically right about Soviet agents working for the U.S. government. Hiss turned out to be a high-ranking Soviet spy (who consulted Roosevelt at Yalta). Reagan, ridiculed throughout his presidency, ended up winning the Cold War. And George W. Bush, also an object of ridicule, has performed exceptionally in responding to America's newest threats at home and abroad. Coulter, who in Slander exposed a liberal bias in today's media, also examines how history, especially in the latter half of the twentieth century, has been written by liberals and, therefore, distorted by their perspective. Far from being irrelevant today, her clearheaded and piercing view of what we've been through informs us perfectly for challenges today and in the future. <BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"><BR style="mso-special-character: line-break"> From The Critics The New Yorker Coulter's thesis has the force of simplicity: liberals detest America and prefer to side with the "Third World savages" who attack it. In her view, American critics of the War on Terror are the intellectual progeny of the Soviet sympathizers rooted out by Senator McCarthy and HUAC. Joe Stalin may have given way to Osama Bin Laden, but the fellow-traveling habit is unchanged. The result is a strangely lopsided book, which spends a lot of time going over ground -- the Venona transcripts, Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs -- that has been well covered in recent years and asserting, for the umpteenth time, the guilt of people whom few liberals today would try to defend. Coulter does better when sending up the post-colonial pieties of liberals and "their cheese-tasting friends," and probably owes her widespread popularity more to her skill as a social satirist than to any real acumen as a political commentator. PUBLISHED AT TWENTY SEVEN DOLLARS. </B> As New Book Jacket Hardcover 6 x 9"

[SW: U.S. Politics & Government - History, U.S. Federal Government - The Executive Branch, U.S. Politics & Government - International Relations]

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Fishman, Steve: KARAOKE NATION: OR, HOW I SPENT A YEAR IN SEARCH OF GLAMOUR, FULFILLMENT, AND A MILLION DOLLARS, New York Free Press, The 2003
ISBN: 0-7432-2902-9 As New

"Four years ago, Steve Fishman decided to make a million dollars. Why not? Despite his lack of business background, financial skills, or the slightest interest in management, 1990s America seemed to offer very few obstacles to his dream; in fact, in the midst of the entrepreneurial boom, it seemed almost unpatriotic not to want to be a business success. <P> And so was it any wonder that, in the same way that it called to Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Alger, Andrew Carnegie, or Thomas Adams (the inventor of chewing gum), the siren song of success whispered in Steve Fishman's ear?" "Or that he sang right back?" "What the sirens whispered was a little business idea: hip-hop karaoke...over the Internet. His flash of genius, KaraokeNation.com, began almost as a caper - involving a former rock 'n' roll drummer, an aspiring novelist, and an ex-paratrooper - but quickly became an obsession. And again, why not? Music business legends like Russell Simmons (hip-hop's godfather) and Chuck D (founder of Public Enemy) bought in...to say nothing of New Economy kingpins Jerry Colonna (CEO of Flatiron Partners) and Joseph Park (founder of Kozmodotcom), who, each in his own way, encouraged a budding entrepreneur. <P> But mostly, this tale became, if not a success story, then a story about success. Karaoke Nation is Steve Fishman's journey into what was truly the heart of the American dream, 1990s style: self-actualization through entrepreneurial success. It's the best, funniest story yet of the dot-com boom, a gold rush the likes of which America hadn't seen since Roughing It, Mark Twain's story of the 1861 Nevada gold and silver strike. It chronicles one of those rare times when it seemed as if anyone - ANYONE - could become hugely wealthy, just by collecting the dollars that floated down from the sky." Karaoke Nation follows Steve from before he had even a germ of a business idea (or a business inclination) through the germination of a business. He signs partners (with big dreams and ridicule..) <P> FROM THE CRITICS Publishers Weekly : Feeling a certain ennui with his career as a journalist, Fishman (A Bomb in the Brain) was seduced at the height of the bubble to join the business fray-or rather the Internet business fray, as the author's main point is distinguishing between the two. After telling the reader about his preconceived notions of responsible, workaday businessmen, Fishman introduces all manner of strange characters who broke that mold while working with him to launch an online karaoke venture. <P> Most prominent, but by no means the most colorful, is hip-hop strategist Russell Simmons. Fishman's frequent confessions of his own ignorance of the ways of business help to balance the fun he has at others' expense. Still, the tone of wide-eyed amusement sometimes becomes tiresome, particularly because so little actually happens in his business world. People dream big, they network and they keep multiple cell phones for use between, and during, strings of meetings. It is only in the last few pages, after Fishman has been edged aside by former partners, that he offhandedly mentions the product actually getting offered. Given the number of books already available from failed entrepreneurs-turned-authors, the world can probably live without another dissection of the mechanics or sociology of the dot-com world. Fishman instead falls back on his more substantial skills as a profile journalist to offer a humorous look at a few people who thrived in that rarefied habitat. It will probably find the greatest appeal among young general readers rather than staid, old-time businesspeople. <P> Library Journal : Have you ever found yourself in a bar thinking "Today I will set out to make a million dollars"? Journalist Fishman (A Bomb in the Brain) had just that experience, and here he tells his story. Fishman is the first to admit that he had no business experience, yet he was convinced that hip-....</strong> Hardcover 8.8 x 5.7 x 1.1 inches

[SW: New business enterprises -- United States, Internet marketing -- United States, Entrepreneurship -- United States, Fishman, Steve, 1955-]

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Gross, Michael: Genuine Authentic: The Real Life of Ralph Lauren, New York Perennial; HarperCollins 2004
ISBN: 0060958480 NEW

BRAND NEW. Remainder mark/tail edge. "Everyone knows the name Ralph Lauren. Many peopleknow that he was born Ralphie Lifshitz. But not even Lauren himself knows the extra-ordinary history of his ancestry. And until now, no one really knew how this pint-size nebbish rose from the Jewish ghetto of the Bronx and turned himself from a yarmulke-topped yeshiva boy into the world's leading purveyor of old-money-WASP style. Genuine Authentic is that story. Horatio Alger, step aside. Lauren, the descendant of generations of eastern European rabbis, is the embodiment of modern ambition. He stands as a symbol of the awesome rewards of self-invention -- and not just because he turned a talent for designing ties into a ten-billion-dollar international business. He also demonstrates how precarious success is, how hard a road life can be even for the driven. Lauren is considered by many to be a phony and a copycat. Yet even though he made up his name and nearly went bankrupt trying to live up to it, he can't be dismissed as a mere fake. His products have revolutionized the way almost everything is sold and the way great brands are built. Like Henry Ford and Walt Disney, he's also a real American authentic. And his business is a stunning American success. There are at least two Ralph Laurens. To the public he's a gentle, modest, yet secure and purposeful man. Inside the walls of Polo Ralph Lauren, though, he's seen by some as a narcissist, an insecure ditherer, and at times a rampaging tyrant. Michael Gross, author of the bestseller Model, lays bare the truths of this fashion emperor's rise, and reveals not only the secrets of his stunning success in marketing our shared fantasies but also the darker side that's hidden behind the shiny patrician image. Gross uncovers the essence of Lauren's carefully cultivated mystique: how he has turned his back on his own surprisingly aristocratic heritage to embrace another, more commercially viable, one how he's built an image of luxury and wealth on a foundation of almost anonymous commodities, basic items of clothing like polo shirts and khaki pants, sold mostly in low-priced outlets, and seen everywhere from the subway to the world stage. It wasn't easy. Along the way, Lauren conquered self-doubt and survived business reverses, even several brushes with bankruptcy. Genuine Authentic follows Lauren through an unhappy childhood and confused adolescence -- torn between an immigrant culture and his material desires -- to fame as a gray-haired thirty-something, and, finally, to the man he is today. In recent years, after surviving brain tumor surgery, Lauren suffered from a massive midlife crisis, finding solace with a beautiful blond model. He survived that, too, and in the nineties took his company public, making him a billionaire but creating a whole new set of challenges to confront, new horizons to conquer, starting with Wall Street, and then on to the rest of the world. Phony? Or the real thing? It's all here. You decide." - Publisher. First paperback edition Trade Paperback 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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Hansen, Mark Victor: THE ONE MINUTE MILLIONAIRE: THE ENLIGHTENED WAY TO WEALTH, New York Crown Publishing Group 2002
0-609-60949-1 As New Condition

Mark Victor Hansen is the mastermind behind the blockbuster Chicken Soup series, and Robert G. Allen is the personal finance expert who wrote the million-selling Nothing Down and Creating Wealth. What brings these two bestselling authors together is their belief that good thinking and good spirits should be compatible gifts. Part inspirational fable and part motional personal finance book, The One Minute Millionaire could be the most unconventional and uplifting business book you've ever read. From the Publisher Would you like to know the secrets to making all the money you'll ever want? Now, two mega-bestselling authors with decades of experience in teaching people how to achieve extraordinary wealth and success share their secrets. Mark Victor Hansen, cocreator of the phenomenal Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and Robert G. Allen, one of the world's foremost financial experts, have helped thousands of people become millionaires. Now it's your turn. Is it possible to make a million dollars in only one minute? The answer just might surprise you. The One Minute Millionaire is an entirely new approach, a life-changing “millionaire system” that will teach you how to: * Create wealth even when you have nothing to start with. * Overcome fears so you can take reasonable risks. * Use the power of leverage to build wealth rapidly. * Use “one minute” habits to build wealth over the long term. The One Minute Millionaire is a revolutionary approach to building wealth and a powerful program for self-discovery as well. Here are two books in one, fiction and nonfiction, designed to address two kinds of learning so that you can fully integrate these life-changing lessons. On the right-hand pages, you will find the fictional story of a woman who has to make a million dollars in ninety days or lose her two children forever. The left-hand pages give the practical, step-by-step nonfiction strategies and techniques that actually work in the real world. You'll find more than one hundred nuts-and-bolts “Millionaire Minutes,” each one a concise and invaluable lesson with specific techniques for creating wealth. However, the lessons here are not just about becoming a millionaire—they are about becoming an enlightened millionaire and how to ethically make, keep, and share your wealth. Whether your goal is less than a million dollars or that amount many times over, there's never been a better time to achieve abundance. Let The One Minute Millionaire show you the way. Author Biography: Mark Victor Hansen is the coauthor of one of the biggest-selling book series in history, Chicken Soup for the Soul, with more than 80 million copies in print. Mark has been a public speaker for twenty-five years, entertaining and enlightening audiences worldwide. He is the author of five other books and six popular audio programs, and is the recipient of numerous honorary degrees and awards, including the Horatio Alger Award. Robert G. Allen has probably helped to create more millionaires in this country than any other single person. He is the author of some of the most successful financial books in history. Nothing Down has sold more than 1,250,000 copies, and his other books—Creating Wealth, Multiple Streams of Income, and Multiple Streams of Internet Income—have all been major New York Times bestsellers. From The Critics Publishers Weekly This mega-selling twosome (Hansen's name is on every book in the Chicken Soup series and Allen wrote the bestselling real estate guide No Money Down) offers a long-winded pep talk on how just about anybody can make big money. According to the authors, "At this very instant you are standing in the middle of millions." They maintain that anyone can achieve "enlightened" wealth, a utopia where everyone has money and tithes, creating a better world for all. Hansen and Allen's approach is a mix of self-help and money talk, though a bit heavier on the former. The left-hand pages are a simplified explanation of how to amass millions, with options Hardcover 6 x 9"

[SW: Self-Improvement, Business - General & Miscellaneous, Business Life & Careers]

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