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Jane Fleming, a 46-year-old housewife and grandmother, lives a quiet life in suburban East Kilbride. All that changes when her son, Ross, who works in the arms industry, is forced into hiding when his latest research attracts unwanted attention.
Parents are fooled into thinking their straight-A students are academic stars and stunned when they are rejected by selective universities. They don’t realize that these days, A is for Average.
The uber-wealthy investor is thrifty with just about everything, from his breakfast to his house.
The truth about who or what is actually at fault for inflation numbers not seen since the 1980s is more complex than any political talking points or anti-Fed screeds.
J R is a novel by William Gaddis published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1975. It tells the story of a schoolboy secretly amassing a fortune in penny stocks. J R won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1976. [1] It was Gaddis' first novel since the 1955 publication of The Recognitions.
The kidnapping is the central point of the story, but Kennedy also details the everyday lives of the characters inhabiting Albany's working class and poor neighborhoods. [2] Some of the characters, including Billy Phelan's father Francis, appear in Ironweed , the third installment of the Albany Cycle.
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A review in The Guardian, while generally praising Plutocrats, noted that it was "short of solutions" to the problems it identifies. [7] According to Anthony Gould, Plutocrats argues that the American Dream is "apparently over", because American society no longer rewards entrepreneurs who produce useful or valuable goods and instead favours financial chicanery as a way to get rich.