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Category : Dressmaking
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
The Big Rich
Author: Bryan BurroughPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143116827
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
“Full of schadenfreude and speculation—and solid, timely history too.” —Kirkus Reviews “This is a portrait of capitalism as white-knuckle risk taking, yielding fruitful discoveries for the fathers, but only sterile speculation for the sons—a story that resonates with today's economic upheaval.” —Publishers Weekly “What's not to enjoy about a book full of monstrous egos, unimaginable sums of money, and the punishment of greed and shortsightedness?” —The Economist Phenomenal reviews and sales greeted the hardcover publication of The Big Rich, New York Times bestselling author Bryan Burrough's spellbinding chronicle of Texas oil. Weaving together the multigenerational sagas of the industry's four wealthiest families, Burrough brings to life the men known in their day as the Big Four: Roy Cullen, H. L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Sid Richardson, all swaggering Texas oil tycoons who owned sprawling ranches and mingled with presidents and Hollywood stars. Seamlessly charting their collective rise and fall, The Big Rich is a hugely entertaining account that only a writer with Burrough's abilities-and Texas upbringing-could have written.
The Rich Mrs. Burgoyne
Author: Kathleen Thompson NorrisPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Wealth and Democracy
Author: Kevin PhillipsPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767905342
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
For more than thirty years, Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. His bestselling books, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), have influenced presidential campaigns and changed the way America sees itself. Widely acknowledging Phillips as one of the nation's most perceptive thinkers, reviewers have called him a latter-day Nostradamus and our "modern Thomas Paine." Now, in the first major book of its kind since the 1930s, he turns his attention to the United States' history of great wealth and power, a sweeping cavalcade from the American Revolution to what he calls "the Second Gilded Age" at the turn of the twenty-first century. The Second Gilded Age has been staggering enough in its concentration of wealth to dwarf the original Gilded Age a hundred years earlier. However, the tech crash and then the horrible events of September 11, 2001, pointed out that great riches are as vulnerable as they have ever been. In Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips charts the ongoing American saga of great wealth–how it has been accumulated, its shifting sources, and its ups and downs over more than two centuries. He explores how the rich and politically powerful have frequently worked together to create or perpetuate privilege, often at the expense of the national interest and usually at the expense of the middle and lower classes. With intriguing chapters on history and bold analysis of present-day America, Phillips illuminates the dangerous politics that go with excessive concentration of wealth. Profiling wealthy Americans–from Astor to Carnegie and Rockefeller to contemporary wealth holders–Phillips provides fascinating details about the peculiarly American ways of becoming and staying a multimillionaire. He exposes the subtle corruption spawned by a money culture and financial power, evident in economic philosophy, tax favoritism, and selective bailouts in the name of free enterprise, economic stimulus, and national security. Finally, Wealth and Democracy turns to the history of Britain and other leading world economic powers to examine the symptoms that signaled their declines–speculative finance, mounting international debt, record wealth, income polarization, and disgruntled politics–signs that we recognize in America at the start of the twenty-first century. In a time of national crisis, Phillips worries that the growing parallels suggest the tide may already be turning for us all.
The Delineator
Author: Bodies of the Rich
Author: John Jacob ClaytonPublisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Early Rich History and Ancestry of Jonathan Rich, Jr., Ft. Covington, N. Y.
Author: George RichRich Family History
Author: Julia Rich HoganPublisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
The Rich and the Great Recession
Author: Mr.Bas B. BakkerPublisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 149830737X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Most papers explaining the macro causes of the U.S. Great Recession focus on the behavior of the middle class: how its saving rate declined in the pre-crisis years, then surged following the crisis. This paper argues that the saving rate of the rich followed a similar pattern, the result of wealth effects associated with a boom-bust in asset prices. Indeed, the swings in saving by the rich must actually have played the most important role in the consumption boom-bust, since since the top 10 percent account for almost half of income and two-thirds of wealth. In other words, the rich played a critical role in the Great Recession.
From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich
Author: Neale BarnholdenPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496851633
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Between the 1930s and the invention of the internet, American comics reached readers in a few distinct physical forms: the familiar monthly stapled pamphlet, the newspaper comics section, bubblegum wrappers, and bound books. From Gum Wrappers to Richie Rich: The Materiality of Cheap Comics places the history of four representative comics—Watchmen, Uncle Scrooge, Richie Rich, and Fleer Funnies—in the larger contexts of book history, children’s culture, and consumerism to understand the roles that comics have played as very specific kinds of books. While comics have received increasing amounts of scholarly attention over the past several decades, their material form is a neglected aspect of how creators, corporations, and readers have constructed meaning inside and around narratives. Neale Barnholden traces the unusual and surprising histories of comics ranging from the most acclaimed works to literal garbage, analyzing how the physical objects containing comics change the meaning of those comics. For example, Carl Barks’s Uncle Scrooge comics were gradually salvaged by a fan-driven project, an evolution that is evident when considering their increasingly expensive forms. Similarly, Watchmen has been physically made into the epitome of “prestigious graphic novel” by the DC Comics corporation. On the other hand, Harvey Comics’ Richie Rich is typically misunderstood as a result of its own branding, while Fleer Funnies uses its inextricable association with bubblegum to offer unexpectedly sophisticated meanings. Examining the bibliographical histories of each title, Barnholden demonstrates how the materiality of consumer culture suggests meanings to comics texts beyond the narratives.
Get Rich In Spite of Yourself Collection - An "If You Can Count to Four..." Reference
Author: Wallace D. WattlesPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312908505
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Imagine having everything you've ever wanted. All the wealth, fine clothes, nice house, good food - everything you've ever thought of having. And your job or place in life is exactly as you ever dreamed of - you are being just what you always wanted to be. This is a collection of references for anyone studying James Breckenridge Jones' classic millionaire-making handbook, "If You Can Count to Four..." In this collection: * Get Rich In Spite of Yourself - Louis M. Grafe, * The Science of Getting Rich - Wallace D. Wattles, * How to Acquire Millions - N. H. Moos, * The Message of a Master - John McDonald, and * The Miracles of Your Mind - Joseph Murphy. Your life is up to you. You are what you think about. There are no limits - you can be whatever you want to be. You can have whatever you want to have. But first, you have to read and study, and apply these books to your life. (From the Forward) Get Your Copy Today!