The Very, Very Rich and How They Got That Way – eBook

In 1972 Max Gunther invited readers to take a journey with him through a gallery of America’s most prominent millionaires. It was a golden gallery indeed, since the inhabitants framed here are by no means merely ordinary millionaires. A minimum qualifying standard to be considered for inclusion in Gunther’s list is ownership of assets valued at $100 million or more (the equivalent of $500 million today).
We are dealing, then, with the astonishingly affluent, the crème de la crème of the self-made rich.

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