The Billionaire Who Wasn't
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Erik Synnestvedt
Release:
03/19/2008
Release:
03/19/2008
Release:
03/19/2008
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13h 15m
Runtime:
13h 15m
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“A smart business book detailing some vicissitudes of retailing, wrapped in a vivid biography of an engaging tycoon.”
Kirkus Reviews
This substantially updated edition of the Business Week bestseller and an Economist "Best Book of the year" tells the story of the secretive billionaire-turned-philanthropist, who is determined to give away his fortune before he dies.
Chuck Feeney was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to a blue-collar Irish-American family during the Depression. After service in the Korean War, he made a fortune as founder of Duty Free Shoppers, the world's largest duty-free retail chain. By 1988, he was hailed by Forbes Magazine as the twenty-fourth richest American alive. But secretly Feeney had already transferred all his wealth to his foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies. Only in 1997 when he sold his duty free interests, was he "outed" as one of the greatest and most mysterious American philanthropists in modern times. After going "underground" again, he emerged in 2005 to cooperate on a biography promoting giving while living. Now in his mid-seventies, Feeney is determined his foundation should spend down the remaining $4 billion in his lifetime.
Chuck Feeney was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to a blue-collar Irish-American family during the Depression. After service in the Korean War, he made a fortune as founder of Duty Free Shoppers, the world's largest duty-free retail chain. By 1988, he was hailed by Forbes Magazine as the twenty-fourth richest American alive. But secretly Feeney had already transferred all his wealth to his foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies. Only in 1997 when he sold his duty free interests, was he "outed" as one of the greatest and most mysterious American philanthropists in modern times. After going "underground" again, he emerged in 2005 to cooperate on a biography promoting giving while living. Now in his mid-seventies, Feeney is determined his foundation should spend down the remaining $4 billion in his lifetime.
Release:
2008-03-19
2008-03-19
2008-03-19
Runtime:
Runtime:
Runtime:
13h 15m
13h 15m
13h 15m
Format:
audio
audio
audio
Weight:
0.98 lb
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0.0 lb
Language:
English
ISBN:
9798200648535
9798200648542
9781596592292
Publisher:
Ascent Audio
Ascent Audio
Ascent Audio
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