Conor O'Clery
Author
Publisher
Public Affairs
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
xiv, 337 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxi, 316 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The implosion of the Soviet Union was the culmination of a gripping game played out between two men who intensely disliked each other and had different concepts for the future. Mikhail Gorbachev, a sophisticated and urbane reformer, sought to modernize and preserve the USSR; Boris Yeltsin, a coarse and a hard drinking "bulldozer," wished to destroy the union and create a capitalist Russia. The defeat of the August 1991 coup attempt, carried out by...
