| Description |
xi, 224 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Whatever I touch turns to gold -- That splendid enterprise -- Do you gamble? -- I had to seek another livelihood -- All that glitters -- Rich and brimful of vanity -- The richest place on earth -- Poor, pitiful business! -- It is ours, all ours, everything -- In fairyland -- To live in this style -- How the ignorant and inexperienced succeed -- A lie & a fraud -- The proportions of my prosperity -- This awful mechanical miracle -- Our prosperity became embarrassing -- Get me out of business! -- His money is tainted -- Mark Twain loses all -- Knocked flat on my back -- Money for a monument -- You cannot lose a penny -- To succeed in business. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-218) and index. |
| Summary |
Twain was an active, even giddy, participant in all the great booms and busts of his time, launching himself into one harebrained get-rich scheme after another. But far from striking it rich, he failed with comical regularity in an era notorious for its wealth and excess. Mining firms failed; importing coca leaves from the Amazon fizzled. Crawford tells Twain's story of financial optimism and perseverance, and in doing so creates a cracked-mirror history of American business itself. |
| Subject |
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Finance, Personal.
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Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Personal Finance.
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HISTORY -- United States.
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HUMOR -- Business & Professional.
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. (OCoLC)fst00031622
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Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
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Finance, Personal. (OCoLC)fst00924449
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United States. (NL-LeOCL)078939836
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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| Genre/Form |
Nonfiction.
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Crawford, Alan Pell. How not to get rich. Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018] 9780544836716 (DLC) 2018000230 |
| ISBN |
9780544836464 (hardcover) |
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0544836464 |
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