Do You Sincerely Want to Be Rich?
The Full Story of Bernard Cornfeld and I.O.S.
$39.33
- Paperback
592 pages
- Release Date
17 May 2005
Summary
The latest addition to our Library of Larceny, this true story of an irrepressibly charming con man and his mutual fund schemes of the 60s and 70s will have readers hiding their money and turning the pages to find out where his grand ambition takes him (and his unsuspecting victims) next.In the fall of 1955, Bernard Cornfeld arrived in Paris with scant money in his pocket and a tenuous relationship with a New York firm to sell mutual funds overseas. Cornfeld, a former psychologist and social …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780767920063 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0767920066 |
| Author: | Charles Raw, Bruce Page, Godfrey Hodgson |
| Publisher: | Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc) |
| Imprint: | Broadway Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 592 |
| Release Date: | 17 May 2005 |
| Weight: | 695g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 38mm |
| Series: | Library of Larceny |
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Critics Review
“A splendid story quite splendidly told… . [The authors] have researched their subject well; this is no instant history. They savor the drama and the madness, but they stick to business and write with restraint. Cornfeld’s girls, castles, and planes come into the story mostly as they contributed to expense.” —John Kenneth Galbraith, Book World“The best book of its kind I have ever read … unravels the financial complexity of Investors Overseas Services so skillfully that the general reader will have no difficulty in understanding what happened.” —New Statesmen“A tremendously complex story… . [The authors] seem to have poked into every scandal, checked every statistic and interviewed everyone who would talk, from Bernie Cornfeld himself down to the disgruntled employee who told them: ‘If anyone was fool enough to put their money with us, that was their problem.’” —Otto Friedrich, New York Times Book Review
About The Author
Charles Raw
CHARLES RAW was financial editor of The Sunday Times (London) when this book was written. BRUCE PAGE, then executive features editor at The Sunday Times, was coauthor of two other bestselling “Insight” books. GODFREY HODGSON was a Washington correspondent for The Observer (London), where for two years he wrote the financial column “Mammon,” and was foreign features editor of The Sunday Times. He also coauthored, with Page, American Melodrama- The Presidential Campaign of 1968.
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