BILLIONAIRE WHO WASN'T: HOW CHUCK FEENEY SECRETLY MADE AND GAVE AWAY A FORTUNE
by O'CLERY, CONOR
List Price: HK$ 256.00
¡@ISBN
9781586483913
¡@Subject
BIOGRAPHY
¡@Publisher
PUBLIC AFFAIRS USA
¡@Publication
2007
¡@Edition
Hardcover
¡@Version
Original
¡@Description
In 1988 Forbes Magazine hailed Chuck Feeney as the twenty-third richest American alive. Born to a blue-collar Irish-American family during the Depression, he had made a fortune as founder of Duty Free Shoppers, the world's largest duty-free retail chain. 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. A frugal man who travels economy class and does not own a house or a car, Feeney then went "underground" again, until he decided in 2005 to cooperate in a biography to promote giving-while-living. The Billionaire Who Wasn't is a tale of one of the greatest untold retail triumphs of the twentieth century, and of what happens to a unique man and his family when confronted with wealth beyond imagining.
