The Rich Are Different - Hardcover

 
9780679443865: The Rich Are Different
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 067944386X ISBN 13: 9780679443865
Verlag: Pantheon Books Inc, 1996

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"The very rich are different from you and me," said F. Scott Fitzgerald. How different? Well, Ivana Trump so abhors footprints on the carpet that she has the rooms in her home freshly vacuumed before she enters them. Christina Onassis used to have Diet Coke flown to her by private jet.
These are just some of the hilariously outrageous facts and anecdotes that Jon Winokur, editor of the best-selling Portable Curmudgeon, has assembled in this eye-popping field guide to the habits of the equestrian class. Here are the follies and foibles of such plutocrats as William Vanderbilt and Leona Helmsley, Aristotle Onassis and Doris Duke, along with the observations of eminent plutologists from Edith Wharton to Liz Smith. You'll learn how the super-rich get, conserve, and squander their fortunes; how they thwart tax collectors, buy legislative bodies (not to mention entire countries), and literally get away with murder.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Jon Winokur is the author of The Portable Curmudgeon, Zen to Go, and Je Ne Sais What?.  He lives in Pacific Palisades, California.

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ry rich are different from you and me," said F. Scott Fitzgerald.  How different?  Well, Ivana Trump so abhors footprints on the carpet that she has the rooms in her home freshly vacuumed before she enters them.  Christina Onassis used to have Diet Coke flown to her by private jet.  And the elite members of San Francisco's Union Pacific Club needn't worry about handling dirty money, since every coin the enters the institution is scoured by the kitchen staff.

These are just a few of the hilariously outrageous facts and anecdotes that Jon Winokur has assembled in this eye-popping field guide to the habits of the equestrian class.  From the schlock of the Nouveau to the stinginess of Old Money, here are the follies and foibles of such plutocrats as William Vanderbilt and Leona Helmsley, Aristotle Onassis and Doris Duke.  You'll learn how the super-rich get, conserve and squander their fortunes; how they thwart tax collectors, b

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ry rich are different from you and me," said F. Scott Fitzgerald. How different? Well, Ivana Trump so abhors footprints on the carpet that she has the rooms in her home freshly vacuumed before she enters them. Christina Onassis used to have Diet Coke flown to her by private jet. And the elite members of San Francisco's Union Pacific Club needn't worry about handling dirty money, since every coin the enters the institution is scoured by the kitchen staff.

These are just a few of the hilariously outrageous facts and anecdotes that Jon Winokur has assembled in this eye-popping field guide to the habits of the equestrian class. From the schlock of the Nouveau to the stinginess of Old Money, here are the follies and foibles of such plutocrats as William Vanderbilt and Leona Helmsley, Aristotle Onassis and Doris Duke. You'll learn how the super-rich get, conserve and squander their fortunes; how they thwart tax collectors, b

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Verlag
Pantheon Books Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
1996
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
067944386X
ISBN 13 
9780679443865
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
249
Herausgeber
Winokur Jon
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