How Not to Get Rich: The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain
Crawford, Alan Pell
ISBN 10: 0544836464 ISBN 13: 9780544836464
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin, 2014
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A Wealthmanagement.com Best Business Book of 2017
An uproarious account of Mark Twain’s endless attempts to strike it rich, all of which served only to empty his pockets
Mark Twain’s lifetime spans America’s era of greatest economic growth. And Twain was an active, even giddy, participant in all the great booms and busts of his time, launching himself into one harebrained get-rich scheme after another. But far from striking it rich, the man who coined the term “Gilded Age” failed with comical regularity to join the ranks of plutocrats who made this period in America notorious for its wealth and excess.
Instead, Twain’s mining firm failed, despite striking real silver. He ended up somehow owing money over his 70,000 acres of inherited land. And his plan to market the mysteriously energizing coca leaves from the Amazon fizzled when no ships would sail to South America. Undaunted, Twain poured his money into the latest newfangled inventions of his time, all of which failed miserably.
In Crawford’s hilarious telling, the familiar image of Twain takes on a new and surprising dimension. Twain’s story of financial optimism and perseverance is a kind of cracked-mirror history of American business itself—in its grandest cockeyed manifestations, its most comical lows, and its determined refusal to ever give up.
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:
ALAN PELL CRAWFORD is a former U.S. Senate speechwriter, congressional press secretary, and magazine editor. He has reviewed books on American history, politics, and culture for the Wall Street Journal since 1993. His essays have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Nation, and elsewhere.
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Titel: How Not to Get Rich: The Financial ...
Verlag: Houghton Mifflin
Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
Einband: Hardcover
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