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...difficult to imagine a more inflammatory book title that wouldn't result in a visit from the Secret Service. Bugliosi, a star prosecutor and author of the Manson family true-crime best-seller Helter Skelter, aims to inflame. He wants the American public to finally get furious over the Bush Administration's handling of the Iraq war. He certainly is, and boy does it show: his pages are chock-full of insults (Bush is "devoid of any character"), exclamations ("It's enough to make the cat cry") and italics--just so you get it! Bugliosi is well aware...
...more money, and lots of it. Dennis, the founder in 1995 of the bawdy "lad" magazine Maxim (which he sold last year with two smaller publications for a reported $240 million), is from the "greed is good" school of business. Worth as much as $900 million, he estimates, the author clearly thinks he has earned bragging rights, and he intends to exercise them...
...flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it." A published poet, Dennis loads the pages with dozens of quotations from such literary luminaries as Goethe and T.S. Eliot. By turns pretentious and earnest, the book is sui generis. At worst, it reads like a huge ego trip. But the author is nothing if not entertaining, even inspiring. The unvarnished title says it all: Dennis is an advocate of driven, obsessive ambition, all in the service of what he happily refers to as "filthy lucre...
...what are the secrets of building a booming business? For one thing, he says, it helps to be young, penniless and inexperienced: "You have an advantage that neither education nor upbringing, nor even money, can buy--you have almost nothing. And therefore you have almost nothing to lose." The author rhapsodizes about the energy and tech savvy of the young. If you have the misfortune of having acquired a few more years and become a comfortable senior manager or a professional, Dennis is skeptical about your entrepreneurial odds...
...Rich is a cautionary tale. Dennis is the first to tell you that you and your loved ones will pay a price for compulsively pursuing the almighty dollar (or the more valuable pound). The author, a lifetime bachelor, confides that his preoccupation with chasing money "led me into a lifestyle of narcotics, high-class whores, drink and consolatory debauchery...