As a pioneering foreign correspondent, Conor O'Clery has been witness to some of the major world events of the past thirty years, including the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, the Iran-Iraq war, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Clinton years in the White House, the opening up of China, the fall of Indonesia's Suharto, the liberation of East Timor and global warming in the Arctic.
He was named journalist of the year for his reporting of the end of the Cold War, and journalist and reporter of the year for his vivid eye-witness accounts of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade...
As a pioneering foreign correspondent, Conor O'Clery has been witness to some of the major world events of the past thirty years, including the Rus...
This substantially updated edition of the Business Week bestseller and an Economist "Best Book of the year" tells the story of the secretive billionaire-turned-philanthropist, who is determined to give away his fortune before he dies. Chuck Feeney was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, to a blue-collar Irish-American family during the Depression. After service in the Korean War, he made a fortune as founder of Duty Free Shoppers, the world's largest duty-free retail chain. By 1988, he was hailed by Forbes Magazine as the twenty-fourth richest American alive. But secretly...
This substantially updated edition of the Business Week bestseller and an Economist "Best Book of the year" tells the story of the secre...
