About the Book
The man behind the famous Ponzi scheme is introduced in this gripping, exhilarating audiobook. During the Roaring Twenties, Charles Ponzi, a charismatic rogue, launched the most famous scheme in the annals of American finance. Abridged. 4 CDs.
Review :
Advance praise for "Ponzi"
"For Charles Ponzi, a poor Italian immigrant with big dreams and grand schemes, the streets of America truly were paved with gold. In Mitchell Zuckoff's hands, the get-rich-quick saga of Ponzi is a portrait of America in the Roaring Twenties-a time of innocence and greed, of rogues, rascals, and reformers. It's hard not to root for Ponzi as he tiptoes along a financial high wire of his own creation, high above his immigrant investors cheering him on and the Boston Brahmins hoping for him to fall. Zuckoff spins a tale rich in intrigue, corruption, betrayal-and love. It is a story that resonates today, in an age of financial scandals ranging from Enron to Martha Stewart."
-MIKE STANTON, author of "The Prince of Providence"
""Ponzi" is an engaging, learned, and wonderfully entertaining story of American business misadventure. Mitchell Zuckoff's recounting of the story of Charles Ponzi, the curiously charming and likable huckster, reads as swiftly as any novel, but it is also a piece of important business history. Indeed, it stands almost as a parable for our own era of corporate misadventure, and it is not be missed."
-DAVID LISS, author of "A Spectacle of Corruption" "From the Hardcover edition."
Advance praise for "Ponzi"
"For Charles Ponzi, a poor Italian immigrant with big dreams and grand schemes, the streets of America truly were paved with gold. In Mitchell Zuckoff's hands, the get-rich-quick saga of Ponzi is a portrait of America in the Roaring Twenties-a time of innocence and greed, of rogues, rascals, and reformers. It's hard not to root for Ponzi as he tiptoes along a financial high wire of his own creation, high above his immigrant investors cheering him on and the Boston Brahmins hoping for him to fall. Zuckoff spins a tale rich in intrigue, corruption, betrayal-and love. It is a story that resonates today, in an age of financial scandals ranging from Enron to Martha Stewart."
-MIKE STANTON, author of "The Prince of Providence"
""Ponzi" is an engaging, learned, and wonderfully entertaining story of American business misadventure. Mitchell Zuckoff's recounting of the story of Charles Ponzi, the curiously charming and likable huckster, reads as swiftly as any novel, but it is also a piece of important business history. Indeed, it stands almost as a parable for our own era of corporate misadventure, and it is not be missed."
-DAVID LISS, author of "A Spectacle of Corruption" "From the Hardcover edition."
Advance praise for "Ponzi
"For Charles Ponzi, a poor Italian immigrant with big dreams and grand schemes, the streets of America truly were paved with gold. In Mitchell Zuckoff's hands, the get-rich-quick saga of Ponzi is a portrait of America in the Roaring Twenties-a time of innocence and greed, of rogues, rascals, and reformers. It's hard not to root for Ponzi as he tiptoes along a financial high wire of his own creation, high above his immigrant investors cheering him on and the Boston Brahmins hoping for him to fall. Zuckoff spins a tale rich in intrigue, corruption, betrayal-and love. It is a story that resonates today, in an age of financial scandals ranging from Enron to Martha Stewart."
-MIKE STANTON, author of "The Prince of Providence
""Ponzi is an engaging, learned, and wonderfully entertaining story of American business misadventure. Mitchell Zuckoff's recounting of the story of Charles Ponzi, the curiously charming and likable huckster, reads as swiftly as any novel, but it is also a piece of important business history. Indeed, it stands almost as a parable for our own era of corporate misadventure, and it is not be missed."
-DAVID LISS, author of "A Spectacle of Corruption "From the Hardcover edition.
