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The Billionaire Who Wasn't
Conor O'Clery
How Chuck Feeney Made and Gave Away a Fortune Without Anyone Knowing
PublicAffairs
October 2007
On Sale: October 1, 2007
337 pages ISBN: 1586483919 EAN: 9781586483913 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
The secret life of the billionaire who is determined to give
all his money away before he dies--it's harder than you think! In 1988 Forbes Magazine hailed Chuck Feeney as the
twenty-third richest American alive. Born in Elizabeth, New
Jersey to a blue-collar Irish-American family during the
Depression, a veteran of the Korean War, he had made a
fortune as founder of Duty Free Shoppers, the world's
largest duty-free retail chain. 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. A
frugal man who travels economy class and does not own a
house or a car, Feeney then went "underground" again, until
he decided in 2005 to cooperate in a biography to promote
giving-while-living. Now in his mid-seventies, he is
determined his foundation should spend the remaining $4
billion in his lifetime. The Billionaire Who Wasn't is a
tale of one of the greatest untold retail triumphs of the
twentieth century, and of what happens to a unique man and
his family when confronted with wealth beyond imagining.
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