The Tumultuous History of the Bank of America

Moira Johnston

Beard Books, 2000 - Business & Economics - 417 pages

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Thirty-eight of the largest U.S. billionaires joined the initiative of the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet financial guru, to donate at least half of their fortunes, which together are around 230,000 million. The founder of CNN, Ted Turner, filmmaker George Lucas and the hotelier Barron Hilton, the list
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Thirty-eight of the largest U.S. billionaires have joined the initiative of the founder of Microsoft, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet financial guru, to donate at least half of their fortunes, which together are around 230,000 million, officials said Wednesday the proposal.
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Among the tycoons who have accepted the challenge are the mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, and the co-founder of Oracle, Larry Ellison, and the media executive Barry Diller and CNN founder Ted Turner.
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The list also includes the likes of George Lucas, energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens, the hotelier Barron Hilton and David Rockefeller.
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Gates and Buffett, who Forbes magazine considered two of the world's richest men with a net set of 90,000 million dollars, last month launched the initiative "The Giving Pledge" ("The commitment to donate" to the to convince the country of billionaires who devote their wealth to philanthropy.
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"We just started and we've gotten a terrific response," Buffett said in a statement, owner and financial holding company Berkshire Hathaway known as the "Oracle of Omaha" for his ability to predict the performance of markets.
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In addition to asking for money, Gates and Buffet also asked who would accept his challenge exhibited in a letter the reasons why they decided to donate most of their wealth.
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Bloomberg, who made his fortune from the current financial information company that bears his name, said in his letter that philanthropy is the best investment in the future of new generations.
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"If you do something for your children and show them how much you love, the best thing you can do with difference is to support organizations that build a better world for them," he added.
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Lucas, father of the sagas of the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones," he said, meanwhile, that his interest as donor centers on the world of education.
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"It is the key to our survival as a species. We have to plan for our collective future, and the first step are social instruments, emotional and intellectual we provide to our children, "he said.
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The U.S. has around 400 fortunes in excess of one billion dollars, accounting for 40 percent of assets in this level that is in the world.
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If the millionaires who appear on the list of the 400 richest U.S. donate half of its net assets, could raise for charity and social over 600,000 million dollars, according to estimates by Fortune Magazine 

About the author

Moira Johnston was born in British Columbia. She has been a radio writer/broadcaster, an investigative journalist, and the author of seven books of non-fiction and dozens of articles. Her books and articles have covered many different themes but almost always deal with major contemporary social issues. She has written for such publications as the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, National Geographic and Esquire. Perhaps her most famous book is The Last Nine Minutes: The Story of Flight 781 -- an investigative account of the Paris air disaster of March 3, 1974. She collaborated with Trevor Rees-Jones on The Bodyguard's Story, released in March 2000. Ms. Johnston currently resides in Napa Valley, where she founded Friends of the Napa Valley, an environmentalist group.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Tumultuous History of the Bank of America
• Author: Moira Johnston
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Beard Books, 2000
• ISBN: 1587980207, 9781587980206
• Length: 417 pages
• Subjects: Business & Economics / Banks & Banking; Business & Economics / Corporate & Business History