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THE BILLIONAIRE WHO WASN'T
By: Conor O'Clery
How Chuck Feeney Made and Gave Away a Fortune Without Anyone Knowing
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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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