Myths can prove magical with many examples. Icons buy into a messianic vision that helps them grow and achieve, with many daring to trek down strange roads where they cope but are astute enough to avoid the also-rans. What do most do? They adopt a mythical message to help them cope like billionaires Ted Turner and Fred Smith did long ago. Both were reared in military academies with heroes like Alexander the Great, Attila the Hun and General George Patton from books they had read. Isadora Duncan and Madonna were of a similar ilk. Be what you are not to be more than you could otherwise be is...

Icons & Con-Artists is a book about how some people have an unusual soul that takes them to the pinnacle of power while the world's con-artists try to play the game but often fail in their quest