Less a guide to investment and more a memoir of a possible mogul in the making.
A former Apprentice contender shares her secrets to success.
Getting fired by Donald Trump certainly wasn’t the worst thing that ever happened to Conners, but it did spur her to re-evaluate her life’s direction based on her experiences. Most detrimental of those might have been her family’s sudden move, when she was 11, from their comfortable suburban home outside St. Paul, Minn., to a trailer with no electricity or running water in the woods of Wisconsin. But, as with her dismissal by “the Donald,” Conners learned important lessons from that experience, which she credits with enabling her to understand the costs of things and what can be achieved through hard work and perseverance. She claims that perspective is what has given her the drive and focus to build substantial personal wealth by the age of 24. Drawing upon the story of her family’s debt crisis, she opens the book with a wake-up call to America about the dangers of our out-of-control consumer culture. With frightening statistics, she reveals the debt crisis more and more Americans face, and that which our nation faces as a whole. In such uncertain times, Conners urges readers to curb unnecessary spending and to develop supplemental income. She argues that becoming a successful investor is possible for anyone who works hard and stays focused on his or her goals. Conners briefly outlines some methods, mostly related to real estate, that she has used to build her wealth, and she recommends that readers not only spend less–or at least spend wisely–but save more as well. Though her advice is nothing revolutionary, it’s still much-needed medicine. Her personable writing style and compelling life story not only convince the reader of the need for change but also make it seem possible.
Less a guide to investment and more a memoir of a possible mogul in the making.Pub Date: N/A
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Review Posted Online: May 23, 2010
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorkerstaff writer Grann (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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