The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune: 0 - Brossura

O'Clery, Conor

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ISBN 10: 158648642X ISBN 13: 9781586486426

Casa editrice: Public Affairs, 2008

Riassunto

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 retail chain. By 1988, he was hailed by Forbes Magazine as the twenty-fourth richest American alive. 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. After going ?underground” again, he emerged in 2005 to cooperate on a biography promoting giving while living. Now in his mid-seventies, Feeney is determined his foundation should spend down the remaining $4 billion in his lifetime.

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Conor O’Clery is an award-winning journalist and author who served as foreign correspondent for The Irish Times in London, Moscow, Beijing, Washington, and New York. He has written books on Russian, Irish, and American politics. He now lives in Dublin, Ireland.

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• Editore: Public Affairs
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 158648642X
• ISBN 13: 9781586486426
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 341