How Not to Get Rich: The Financial Misadventures of Mark Twain
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (970 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0544836464 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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“Any fool can tell you how to make a fortune. But in his life, Twain was generally the one being snookered. Alan Pell Crawford captures the energy, humor, and wide-eyed hope of America’s first ‘angel investor’ with wit and verve, in a book that is worthy of Twain himself.” —Dan Lyons, author of the New York Times Bestseller Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble “I had no idea that Twain led such an exciting economic life. This book, which is rich with personal finance lessons, is entertaining and presents a new way to examine Twain's historic life through his many and varied economic adventures!” —Eric Tyson, Best-selling author of Personal Finance for Dummies and Investing for Dummies “In his fiction, Mark Twain could get a kid to trade valued marbles in exchange for whitewashing a fence. Wh
And his plan to market the mysteriously energizing coca leaves from the fizzled when no ships would sail to South America. 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. . 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. 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. 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.