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The True Story Of A Financial Legend
Random House
January 2006
On Sale: January 10, 2006
416 pages ISBN: 0812968360 EAN: 9780812968361 Trade Size
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Non-Fiction Biography | Non-Fiction History
It was a time when anything seemed possibleโinstant wealth, glittering fame, fabulous luxuryโand for a run of magical weeks in the spring and summer of 1920, Charles Ponzi made it all come true. Promising to double investorsโ money in three months, the dapper, charming Ponzi raised the โrob Peter to pay Paulโ scam to an art form. At the peak of his success, Ponzi was raking in more than $2 million a week at his office in downtown Boston. Then his house of cards came crashing downโthanks in large part to the relentless investigative reporting of Richard Grozierโs Boston Post. A classic American tale of immigrant life and the dream of success, Ponziโs Scheme is the amazing story of the magnetic scoundrel who launched the most successful scheme of financial alchemy in modern history.
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