Name: The Billionaire who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune
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Author: Conor O'Clery
ISBN: 9781610393348

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The Billionaire who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune

Type

Physical Book

Author

Conor O'Clery

Publisher

PublicAffairs

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

432

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

20.8 x 14.0 x 2.8 cm

Weight

0.43 kg.

ISBN

1610393341

ISBN13

9781610393348

Synopsis "The Billionaire who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune "

The astonishing life of the modest New Jersey businessman who anonymously gave away 10 billion dollars and inspired the giving while living movement. In this bestselling book, Conor O'Clery reveals the inspiring life story of Chuck Feeney, known as the James Bond of philanthropy. Feeney was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to a blue-collar Irish-American family during the Depression. After service in the Korean War, he made a fortune as founder of Duty Free Shoppers, the world's largest duty-free retail chain. By 1988, he was hailed by Forbes Magazine as the twenty-fourth richest American alive. But secretly Feeney had already transferred all his wealth to his foundation, Atlantic Philanthropies. Only in 1997 when he sold his duty free interests, was he outed as one of the greatest and most mysterious American philanthropists in modern times, who had anonymously funded hospitals and universities from San Francisco to Limerick to New York to Brisbane. His example convinced Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to give away their fortunes during their lifetime, known as the giving pledge.

Conor O'Clery

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Conor O’Clery es un periodista y escritor irlandés que trabajó para The Irish Times durante más de treinta años, y fue corresponsal extranjero en Moscú, Washington, Pekín y Nueva York. Ha sido nombrado dos veces Periodista del Año, por sus despachos desde Moscú y por sus informes sobre los atentados del 11 de Septiembre en Nueva York. Es autor de varios libros, entre ellos Melting Snow (1991), sobre la caída de la Unión Soviética; The Greening of the White House (1997), sobre la presidencia de Clinton; The Billionaire Who Wasn’t (2007), una biografía del filántropo Chuck Feeney; y Moscow, December 25, 1991 (2011), un relato del último día de la Unión Soviética.

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