The Mark Twain Forum needs a reviewer for the following book:
Leckey, Andrew. _The Lack of Money is the Root of All Evil; Mark Twain's
Timeless Wisdom On Money, Wealth, and Investing_. Paramus, NJ: Prentice
Hall Press, 1999. Pp. 256. Cloth, 5 1/4 x 8 1/2. $22.00. ISBN
0-7352-02192.
The review copy is a paperbound "Advanced Reading Copy" of 210 pages.
Actual publication for the book is scheduled for January 19, 2001.
Publicity material for the book reads:
Mark Twain was born into poverty. Through eclectic business endeavors and
smart investing, he amassed great wealth by the age of 50. He went
bankrupt at 60, and became wealthy at 70.
Using the words of Mark Twain, Andrew Leckey--an accomplished financial
journalist known to millions for anchoring CNBC--imparts the lessons
today's investors can learn from Twain.
Leckey has combed Twain's novels, stories, speeches, and letters for
telling sayings about making, saving, guarding and growing money.
Foreword by John C. Bogle - named one of the investment industry's four
"giants of the 20th century" by _Fortune_ magazine.
Preface by Louis J. Budd, professor emeritus in English at Duke University
and a respected Mark Twain scholar and member of the Mark Twain Forum.
As usual, the review must be of publishable quality, and it would be due
within two months of your receipt of the book (i.e., due mid November).
The deadline is particularly important. In all fairness to publishers and
authors, if you are inclined to procrastinate, or have difficulty meeting
deadlines, please do not offer to review this book.
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Thanks,
Barbara Schmidt
Book review editor, Mark Twain Forum
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