Wealth Secrets of the One Percent (BOOK REVIW)
Wealth
Secrets of the One Percent
A
Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich
by
Sam Wilkin
Little,
Brown and Company
Hardcover,
$28.00
430
pages, Illustrated
ISBN:
978-0-316-37893-2
Book
Review by Kam Williams
“Let us assume, dear
reader, that you are interested in... obtaining a vast fortune... a
fortune of yachts and personal helicopters, of diamond-encrusted
light fixtures, of stately homes and private islands, of your name
emblazoned upon landmark buildings and a charitable foundation... a
fortune in the billions.
If such a fortune were
your goal, how might you set about obtaining it? That is the question
this book seeks to answer... by researching the relatively small
number of people throughout history who have become staggeringly
wealthy and the methods that they have used to do so...
These narratives of
success will demonstrate why it makes sense both to celebrate... and
condemn... the wealth accumulated over the past decade by a fortunate
few. And, more importantly, how you can join them.”
-- Excerpted from the
Introduction (Pages 1-5)
Donald
Trump continues to maintain a comfortable lead in the Republican
presidential nomination sweepstakes, regardless of what outrageous
comments he makes. And, unlike Mitt Romney who tried to play down his
wealth, “The Donald” is a narcissist who loves to flaunt the fact
that he's a billionaire.
How
do you explain Trump's popularity? Perhaps America is entering
another hedonistic cycle similar to the one back in the Eighties when
the country embraced the credo “Greed is good!” as espoused by
the character Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street.
If
you'd like to be among the big winners this time around, do yourself
a favor and pick up a copy of Wealth Secrets of the One Percent: A
Modern Manual to Getting Marvelously, Obscenely Rich. The book was
written by economist Sam Wilkin who studied the habits of highly
effective tycoons from antiquity to the present.
His
comprehensive opus examines the affluent of many an era, including
the Roman Empire, the robber barons of the 19th Century,
the Forbes 400 Lists of the 20th Century, and the “too
big to fail” bankers condemned as corrupt by the 21st
Century's Occupy Wall Street
movement..Before you start salivating at
the prospect of accumulating wealth beyond your wildest dreams, you
might want to consider the fact that the path to the top has often
been paved with unscrupulous behavior.
For
example, the filthy rich Romans maintained their competitive
advantage over the masses by keeping most of their subjects
illiterate and/or enslaved. As the book works its way to the present,
we also learn about the compromised ethics of this or that icon:
Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, and so forth.
Thus,
the secrets revealed in the final chapter come as no surprise after
repeatedly reading about advantage achieved via bribery, monopolies
and other deals with the devil. Prosperity indicted as a reward
reserved for the ruthless.
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