All the Money in the World

Peter W. Bernstein, Annalyn Swan

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Dec 2, 2008 - Biography & Autobiography - 432 pages

From Wall Street to the West Coast, from blue-collar billionaires to blue-blood fortunes, from the Google guys to hedge-fund honchos, this compulsively readable book gives us the lowdown on today richest Americans.

Veteran journalists Peter W. Bernstein and Annalyn Swan delve into who made and lost the most money in the past twenty-five years, the fields and industries that have produced the greatest wealth, the biggest risk takers, the most competitive players, the most wasteful family feuds, the trophy wives, the most conspicuous consumers, the biggest art collectors, and the most and least generous philanthropists.

Incorporating exclusive, never-before-published data from Forbes magazine, All the Money in the World is a vastly entertaining, behind-the-scenes look at today's Big Rich.

Contents

• Introduction: 3
• Education Intelligence Drive: 23
• Risk: 46
• Luckand Timing: 68
• Winning Is Everything: 87
• Bluecollar Billionaires: 109
• West Coast Money: 131
• Entertainment and Media: 156
• Beyond Wall Street: 176
• Conspicuous Consumption: 205
• Heirs: 230
• Family Feuds: 252
• Giving It Away: 276
• Power and Politics: 306

About the author

PETER W. BERNSTEIN and ANNALYN SWAN are veteran journalists and editors who between them have worked at U.S. News & World Report, Time, Newsweek, and Fortune magazines over the last twenty-five years. Bernstein is the co-editor of The New York Times Practical Guide to Practically Everything and editor of The Ernst & Young Tax Guide. Bernstein and Swan are cofounders of ASAP Media, which helped produce Secrets of the Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind the Da Vinci Code. They live in New York City.

Bibliographic information

• Title: All the Money in the World
• Authors: Peter W. Bernstein, Annalyn Swan
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2008
• ISBN: 0307267709, 9780307267702
• Length: 432 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Rich & Famous; Business & Economics / Corporate & Business History; Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity