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...Reading your book made me feel a lot better about our economy and policymakers today...
...what extent do you think it's possible to prevent financial collapse - as opposed to just dealing with it after it arrives? In 1926, the central bankers in your book were already worrying about many of the things that would eventually lead to the Great Depression. They saw it coming but didn't stop...
...Wrote a book in 1971 called Bring Us Together about his experiences as a civil rights official in the Nixon administration...
...Lowdown: The new year is upon us. Break out the optimism, the resolutions and the thinly-veiled self-help books. There are some, like Henry Alford's How To Live that hide their chicken-soup soul within the well-structured tale of a fruitful personal journey. Then there are those such as Rich Like Them, whose vigorous attempts to shake off the label ("It's not what you think of as a traditional self-help book...I chose instead to look at the context of these lives, to tell people's stories"), just end up making the author sound slightly...
...most fascinating thing about this book, however, is not the advice, most of which can be found in any number of airport newsstand business tomes. It's what's not there. To release such a thing at the height of our current financial crisis - well, D'Agostino must either be smacking himself in the face with regret or clinching his fists and yelling "Yes!" (given that he advises several times to take advantage of unforeseen opportunities, it's probably the latter). Full of real-estate developers, venture capitalists and tech mavens, Rich Like Them fills the reader first with...