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The Billionaire Who Wasn't Conor O'Clery

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The Billionaire Who Wasn't Conor O'Clery


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Zusammenfassung

The curious life of the secretive billionaire-turned-philanthropist, now substantially updated with a fascinating coda

The Billionaire Who Wasn't Zusammenfassung

The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune Conor O'Clery

This substantially updated edition of the Business Week bestseller and an Economist Best Book of the year" tells the story of the secretive billionaire-turned-philanthropist, who is determined to give away his fortune before he dies.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.

Über Conor O'Clery

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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CIN1610393341VG
9781610393348
1610393341
The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune Conor O'Clery
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PublicAffairs,U.S.
2013-08-27
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