The Rich are Different - Hardcover

Winokur, Jon

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 067944386X ISBN 13: 9780679443865

Verlag: Pantheon Books Inc, 1996

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Book by Winokur Jon

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A hilarious collection of outrageous quotations, facts, and anecdotes about the very rich explores the follies and foibles of Aristotle Onassis, Doris Duke, William Vanderbilt, Leona Helmsley, and other plutocrats. 40,000 first printing.

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ry rich are different from you and me," said F. Scott Fitzgerald.  How different?  Well, Ivana Trump so abhors footprints on the carpet that she has the rooms in her home freshly vacuumed before she enters them.  Christina Onassis used to have Diet Coke flown to her by private jet.  And the elite members of San Francisco's Union Pacific Club needn't worry about handling dirty money, since every coin the enters the institution is scoured by the kitchen staff.

These are just a few of the hilariously outrageous facts and anecdotes that Jon Winokur has assembled in this eye-popping field guide to the habits of the equestrian class.  From the schlock of the Nouveau to the stinginess of Old Money, here are the follies and foibles of such plutocrats as William Vanderbilt and Leona Helmsley, Aristotle Onassis and Doris Duke.  You'll learn how the super-rich get, conserve and squander their fortunes; how they thwart tax collectors, b

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• Verlag: Pantheon Books Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 067944386X
• ISBN 13: 9780679443865
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248