An elemental program which battles financial anxiety by delivering methods for control.
From personal financial consultant Ford, a self-disciplined, gimlet-eyed framework for putting your money affairs in order.
Ford successfully endeavors to build a bedrock of principles for sound financial planning. It’s a foundation for the Everyman, presented in a yeomanly, amiable style. The author uses figures that most people can relate to and incorporates moral values into the financial picture (such as putting one’s family first). His eight pillars are equally sensible and approachable. Ford suggests readers establish an account for emergencies (setting aside $200 a month, primarily for debt avoidance); take an inventory of their worth and make a budget; stay out of debt (“Pay your credit card(s) off, in full, every month. If you cannot do this–you need to cut them up and get rid of them”), or assume acceptable debt–mortgage, automobile; educate themselves regarding insurance and the basics of estate-planning; save and invest in things with personal meaning, such as their children’s education and their retirement; outline ways to approach a home mortgage; improve themselves–learn something new or embellish your expertise–to improve their income; and give back, for that is their greatest gift. The author writes, “Giving back means sharing the time, talents, energy, and abundance you enjoy with other people around you,” which by Ford’s reckoning is ten percent of one’s time and income. His bottom line is that readers should take even the smallest steps to jump-start their program, and educate themselves on options and pitfalls. Of course Ford is a businessman after all, and has yet more advice to sell–CDs, workbooks, etc.–but he also wants to be readers’ Benjamin Franklin, preaching that an investment in knowledge pays the best interest. Fortunately, Ford’s plain-spoken edicts harbor no surprises.
An elemental program which battles financial anxiety by delivering methods for control.Pub Date: N/A
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Review Posted Online: May 23, 2010
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Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorkerstaff writer Grann (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
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The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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