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Richistan
Robert Frank
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Description for Richistan
Paperback. Imagine a country populated with nothig but millionaires. Let's call it Richistan .. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 3JMC; JFSC; KJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 214.
In this riveting book, Wall Street Journal reporter Robert Frank explores the lives and lifestyles of a new breed of millionaires and billionaires - many of them self-made and from blue-collar backgrounds - and how this new gilded age is affecting wider society. Profiles of 'instapreneurs', dot-com billionaires, and eccentrics from the lower and upper reaches of Richistan take us into the rarified world of people like Ed Bazinet, who became a multi-millionaire by selling miniature ceramic villages, and Tim Blixseth, who earned billions by trading remote stretches of timberland. The influence wielded by the newly wealthy goes far beyond ... Read more
In this riveting book, Wall Street Journal reporter Robert Frank explores the lives and lifestyles of a new breed of millionaires and billionaires - many of them self-made and from blue-collar backgrounds - and how this new gilded age is affecting wider society. Profiles of 'instapreneurs', dot-com billionaires, and eccentrics from the lower and upper reaches of Richistan take us into the rarified world of people like Ed Bazinet, who became a multi-millionaire by selling miniature ceramic villages, and Tim Blixseth, who earned billions by trading remote stretches of timberland. The influence wielded by the newly wealthy goes far beyond ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780749928650
SKU
V9780749928650
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Ref
99-1
About Robert Frank
Robert Frank is a senior special writer for the Wall Street Journal. In 2003 he launched a new area for the paper, focusing on wealth and the lives of the new rich.
Reviews for Richistan
A fascinating excursion through the lives of the rich. The rise and rise of rich people is the most important and least noticed economic trend of our time. Richistan is a lively glimpse of the future.
Richard Koch
Jaw dropping
OBSERVER
I couldn't put it down. Frank's field guide to the new rich is as funny ... Read more
Richard Koch
Jaw dropping
OBSERVER
I couldn't put it down. Frank's field guide to the new rich is as funny ... Read more