Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic BillionaireKnopf, 2002 - 344 стор. The first biography of George Soros written with his cooperation--a dramatic story of the capitalistic genius who has become the leading philanthropist of our time. In a fascinating narrative, we follow Soros from European dislocation to unfathomable success and wealth. Born into a Jewish family in Budapest, he was on his own by age 14, passing as an Aryan to survive World War II. As a penniless 17-year-old in London, he dreamed both of personal glory and making the world less harsh. Ambition and opportunity drove him to Wall Street, where he arrived in 1956. Soon he was "the greatest money manager in the world." In his early 50s, restless and having made his fortune, Soros turned to doing good as a full-time occupation, showing the same energy, imagination, and courage in spending his money as he had in making it. He has invested more than $1 billion worldwide through his Open Society foundations, undermining the kind of totalitarianism he knew in his youth. Kaufman reveals how Soros became a key figure in accelerating the collapse of communism, while minimizing the trauma of transition, and how his work continues today. Packed with event and character, this is the story of a remarkable, brilliant, hugely generous, but--until now--little-understood man. |
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Erzebet and Tivadar | 3 |
3 | 27 |
4 | 45 |
5 | 52 |
6 | 62 |
27 | 73 |
8 | 83 |
II | 119 |
China | 213 |
Russia | 222 |
Black Wednesday | 235 |
Branching Out | 242 |
Deeper Pockets | 256 |
Rescue Missions | 268 |
Death of a Hero | 282 |
Having Impact | 290 |
12 | 134 |
GIVING IT AWAY | 161 |
Into Philanthropy | 163 |
Human Rights | 173 |
Hungary | 189 |
Domestic Reforms | 201 |
Baltimore | 303 |
Soros at Seventy | 316 |
Acknowledgments | 325 |
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