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Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs, a member of the Perseus Book Group
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Big Money is a rollicking tour of a new political world dramatically reordered by ever-larger flows of cash. Ken Vogel has breezed into secret gatherings of big-spending Republicans and Democrats alike -- from California poolsides to DC hotel bars -- to brilliantly expose the way the mega-money men (and rather fewer women) are dominating the new political landscape. Great wealth seems to attach itself to outsize characters. From the casino magnate...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Obelisco
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
"La mente millonaria se centra en una población de millonarios que han acumulado una riqueza considerable y viven de forma que demuestran abiertamente su opulencia. Explorando las ideas, creencias y comportamientos que han permitido a estos millonarios construir y mantener sus fortunas, el doctor Thomas J. Stanley ofrece una mirada fascinante de la élite financiera de Estados Unidos y cómo han llegado a ella. Por ejemplo: ¿Cómo fueron sus días...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[The author] draws on rare in-depth interviews that she conducted with fifty affluent New Yorkers--including hedge fund financiers and corporate lawyers, professors and artists, and stay-at-home mothers--to examine their lifestyle choices and their understanding of privilege. [The author] upends images of wealthy people as invested only in accruing and displaying social advantages for themselves and their children. Instead, these liberal elites,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Over the past 40 years, Tom Stanley and his daughter Sarah Stanley Fallaw have been involved in research examining how self-made, economically successful Americans became that way. Despite the publication of The Millionaire Next Door, The Millionaire Mind, and others, myths about
wealth in American still abound. Government officials, journalists, and many American still tend to
confuse income with wealth. A new generation of household financial...
wealth in American still abound. Government officials, journalists, and many American still tend to
confuse income with wealth. A new generation of household financial...
Author
Publisher
Blue Rider Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The billionaire Russian "oiligarch" whose replica of Czar Alexander II's yacht plies a vast man-made Crimean lake, brimming not with water but billions of gallons of petroleum from his own pipeline. The packaged-suttee mogul Sir Sith Ram Pramba, who sliced the top off Mount Everest and installed it on his terrace atop a Park Avenue apartment buildin. The heir to a California railroad spike fortune who uses a private cross-country tunnel, assembled...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ediciones Obelisco
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
"A pesar de la publicación de libros como El millonario de la puerta de al lado, los mitos sobre la riqueza entre los estadounidenses siguen abundando. Funcionarios gubernamentales, periodistas y muchos estadounidenses siguen tendiendo a confundir los ingresos con la riqueza. Una nueva generación de gestores de la economía doméstica está escuchando a los llamados expertos en gestión económica personal debido a la proliferación de las empresas...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A.. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"An inside look at the secretive world of elite philanthropists--and how they're quietly wielding ever more power to shape American life in ways both good and bad. While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work below the radar promoting a wide range of causes. David Callahan charts the rise of these new power players and the ways they are converting the fortunes of a second...
Author
Publisher
Legacy Lit, an imprint of Hachette Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It's no secret that our country has a serious problem when it comes to wealth inequality - and systemic racism and patriarchy have only exacerbated the advantages of wealthy white men. Over the past three decades, America's richest white men have only become richer, while those suffering in poverty have only gotten poorer. The divide may seem too great to bridge, but Rich White Men exposes the hidden and insidious ways that white male elites inherit,...
Author
Publisher
Reservoir Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"El apellido Sackler adorna los muros de las instituciones m̀s distinguidas: Harvard, el Metropolitan, Oxford, el Louvre... Es una de las familias m̀s ricas del mundo, benefactora de las artes y las ciencias. El origen de su patrimonio siempre fue dudoso, hasta que sali̤ a la luz que lo hab̕an multiplicado gracias a OxyContin, un potente analǧsico que cataliz̤ la crisis de los opioides en Estados Unidos. El imperio del dolor empieza en la Gran...
30) Winter kills
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Screen legend Jeff Bridges stars as Nick Kegan, the son of world-famous tycoon Pa Kegan and half-brother of the late US President Timothy Kegan, who was slain by a lone assassin nineteen years earlier. But when a long-rumored 'second gunman' makes a secret deathbed confession, Nick begins to unravel a trail of suspects that includes a billionaire war-freak, a murderous mob boss, a shady nightclub owner, a Cuban kingpin, an eccentric computer expert,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Have you ever fantasized about being ridiculously wealthy? Probably. Striking it rich is among the most resilient of American fantasies, surviving war and peace, expansions and recessions, economic meltdowns and global pandemics. We dream of the jackpot, the big exit, the life-altering payday, in whatever form that takes. (Americans spent $81 billion on lottery tickets in 2019, more than the GDPs of most nations.) We would escape "essential" day jobs...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Journalist Matt Lewis exposes the ludicrous nature of money in politics and offers readers a better path forward for keeping their elected leaders accountable to the people they are supposed to be representing. A lot has changed since the Founding Fathers first envisioned a country where elected leaders arrived in Washington, performed their civic duty as public servants, and returned home. Today's politicians are an unsavory lot-a hybrid of plutocrats...
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