Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story Of A Financial Legend - Hardcover

Zuckoff, Mitchell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1400060397 ISBN 13: 9781400060399

Publisher: Random House Inc, 2005

Synopsis

You've heard of the scheme. Now comes the man behind it. In Mitchell Zuckoff's book, the first nonfiction account of Charles Ponzi, we meet the charismatic rogue who launched the most famous and extraordinary scam in the annals of American finance.

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Review:

This is the first full nonfiction account of the Ponzi scheme, and Mitchell Zuckoff . . . has made it as agreeable as the smiling, cane-twirling banty rooster of a man behind it. . . . A history that is both solid and entertaining.
Chicago Sun-Times
In his charming book . . . Mitchell Zuckoff vividly recounts the story of Charles Ponzi [with] impressive research and elegant writing.
Boston Sunday Globe
Thanks to Mitchell Zuckoff . . . who has given Ponzi exactly what he deserves: a thorough account of his life and a candid but sympathetic portrait.
The Washington Post Book World
Zuckoff s biography of this charming rogue . . . provokes our wonder precisely because his subject is so brazen and yet so naively captive to his own illusions.
The Wall Street Journal"

"This is the first full nonfiction account of the Ponzi scheme, and Mitchell Zuckoff . . . has made it as agreeable as the 'smiling, cane-twirling banty rooster of a man' behind it. . . . A history that is both solid and entertaining."
-Chicago Sun-Times

"In his charming book . . . Mitchell Zuckoff vividly recounts the story of Charles Ponzi [with] impressive research and elegant writing."
-Boston Sunday Globe

"Thanks to Mitchell Zuckoff . . . who has given Ponzi exactly what he deserves: a thorough account of his life and a candid but sympathetic portrait."
-The Washington Post Book World

"Zuckoff's biography of this charming rogue . . . provokes our wonder precisely because his subject is so brazen-and yet so naively captive to his own illusions."
-The Wall Street Journal

About the Author:

MITCHELL ZUCKOFF is a professor of journalism at Boston University. He is co-author of Judgment Ridge, which was a finalist for an Edgar Award, and author of Choosing Naia, a Boston Globe bestseller and winner of the Christopher Award. As a reporter with The Boston Globe, he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of numerous national honors, including the 2000 Distinguished Writing Award from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He lives outside Boston with his wife and two daughters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1400060397
• ISBN 13: 9781400060399
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 390