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Business genius, inventor, innovator, publisher, philanthropist, activist, sly wit, and potential presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichael Bloomberg's life sounds like an exaggerated version of The American Story, except his adventures are real. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From modest Jewish middle class (and Eagle Scout) to Harvard MBA to Salomon Brothers hot shot (where he gets sent upstairs and later fired) to creator of the machine that would change Wall Street and the rest of the world and make him a billionaire (a description by the author makes the invention clear to non-engineers). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Randolph's account of Bloomberg's life and time reads almost like a novel, a quintessentially American story. 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The chapter that describes this is one of the most revealing of his temperament and energy and vision as well as how he spends his private time--private but convivial. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bloomberg's philanthropies are education, anti-NRA, and supporting a cleaner environment. 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