Old Money
The Mythology of Wealth in America
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The workshop revolutionaries who made our world have never had the attention afforded the political revolutionaries who founded this nation. But it has been these innovators, in small-town attics and on the Mississippi, in Silicon Valley and the wheat fields of Kansas, in a Black woman's beauty parlor and a Dayton bicycle shop, who set America on a course to attain a standard of living unprecedented in the history of the world.
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Wait for the Unabridged audiobook.
- By Jim on 01-02-05
By: Harold Evans, and others
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Bubble in the Sun
- The Florida Boom of the 1920s and How It Brought on the Great Depression
- By: Christopher Knowlton
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 13 hrs and 27 mins
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In Bubble in the Sun Christopher Knowlton shows us the grand artistic and entrepreneurial visions behind Coral Gables, Boca Raton, Mar-a-Lago, Miami Beach, and other storied sites. It was a time when the nightlife raged more raucously than anywhere else in America; workers, mostly black, who built and maintained the boom endured grievous abuses; and the pure beauty of the Everglades suffered wanton ruination. Knowlton also breathes dynamic life into the four forces that made and/or broke Florida in the time.
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- By Dan Pinkston on 02-07-20
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The Old Money Book: How to Live Better While Spending Less
- Secrets of America's Upper Class
- By: Byron Tully
- Narrated by: Moe Egan
- Length: 3 hrs and 50 mins
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The Old Money Book details how anyone from any background can adopt the values, priorities, and habits of America's upper class in order to live a richer life. This entertaining and informative work reveals for the first time, the core values that shape the discreet - but truly affluent - Old Money way of life. Author Byron Tully then details how old money does it, offering time-tested strategies about everything from clothes and cars to finances and furnishings.
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- By Alexey Bulankov on 05-23-17
By: Byron Tully
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The Fourth Turning
- What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
- By: William Strauss, Neil Howe
- Narrated by: Tom Parks
- Length: 19 hrs and 27 mins
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First comes a High, a period of confident expansion. Next comes an Awakening, a time of spiritual exploration and rebellion. Then comes an Unraveling, in which individualism triumphs over crumbling institutions. Last comes a Crisis—the Fourth Turning—when society passes through a great and perilous gate in history. William Strauss and Neil Howe will change the way you see the world—and your place in it. With blazing originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future.
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Repetitive
- By Ben on 12-29-23
By: William Strauss, and others
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- John P.
- 03-19-21
Nice Insights on Old Money Families
This well-written and interesting story is written from an Insider's viewpoint and you get a good sense of what expectations are placed on the family offspring as a result of inheriting a family name, associated wealth, and a continuing patriarchy. I do not agree with one reviewer that the author is bragging about his wealth. In fact, the wealth seems to be more of a burden, especially as the new benefactors try to live up to the outdated expectations. From my non-wealthy 'marketman' perspective, this book gave me a view into their world and I appreciated it. There are plenty of insights you will only find from an insider like this author.
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- Liam Crotty
- 11-28-23
Bitter, trust fund author
Trying to be politically correct, the trust fund author cuts down his ancestors in revisionist history. Pathetic and sad.
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- Lee O. Stokowski
- 06-27-24
A Cold Read, Clearly
This audiobook is riddled throughout with hideous mispronunciations. It gets so bad that one wonders if the lack of even the most basic preparation is at the heart of it, or if it’s just a terrifically ham fisted effort at a satirical reading. A book this important deserves a real reading by someone capable of speaking clearly and pronouncing proper nouns, famous names, and even basic conversational vocabulary correctly.
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- r
- 08-29-24
Boring
Too much of an introspective guilt trip by author. Kept hoping but never got interesting,
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- Melissa H.
- 03-30-17
Once you here the forward, it's a total downer
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I couldn't get past the negativity of the forward. I started listening to all this bragging about who he was and where his family was from and I just went "Ugh!" I really haven't gotten to listen to the point of the story yet because I was so annoyed by the forward of the book
What was most disappointing about Nelson Aldrich’s story?
I was looking for books on the habits of old money, not bragging of old money.
You didn’t love this book... but did it have any redeeming qualities?
Refund me my listening credits, it was a total waste of my goals.
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