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Ponzi's scheme : the true story of a financial legend Cover Image Book

Ponzi's scheme : the true story of a financial legend

Zuckoff, Mitchell. (Author).

Summary: It was a time when anything seemed possible, and for a few weeks in 1920, Charles Ponzi made it all come true. Promising to double investors' money in three months, the dapper, charming Ponzi raised the "rob Peter to pay Paul" scam to an art form. Ponzi was a likable man. His intentions were noble, his manners impeccable, his sales pitch enchanting. Born to a genteel Italian family, he immigrated to the United States with big dreams but no money. Only after he fell hopelessly in love did Ponzi light on the means to make his dreams come true. At the peak of his success, he was taking in more than $2 million a week. And then his house of cards came crashing down--thanks in large part to the relentless investigative reporting of the Boston Post.--From publisher description.

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  • ISBN: 0812968360
  • ISBN: 9780812968361
  • Physical Description: print
    xiii, 390 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-375) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Chapter 1 "I'm the man." 3 -- Chapter 2 "I'm guilty." 19 -- Chapter 3 "Newspaper genius" 33 -- Chapter 4 "A long circle of bad breaks" 45 -- Chapter 5 "As restless as the sea" 59 -- Chapter 6 "An American beauty" 73 -- Chapter 7 "The almighty dollar" 93 -- Chapter 8 "A small snowball downhill" 111 -- Chapter 9 "Always reaching for the moon" 127 -- Chapter 10 "I never bluff." 143 -- Chapter 11 "Like stealing candy from a baby" 159 -- Chapter 12 "Money madness" 179 -- Chapter 13 "Master of the situation" 197 -- Chapter 14 "Even his cows couldn't give milk." 215 -- Chapter 15 "You discovered the money!" 231 -- Chapter 16 "I feel the strain-inside." 251 -- Chapter 17 "I'm not the man." 269.

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Ponzi, Charles 1882-1949
Swindlers and swindling Biography
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