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Jacob Young, William Abrams, and Nancy Clem ran what author Wendy Gamber argues, in her book The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age, was the first-ever Ponzi scheme. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In Munich, Germany, Adele Spitzeder founded the Spitzedersche Privatbank in 1869, promising an interest rate of 10 percent per month.
This is a list of book sales clubs, both current and defunct. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Richard and Judy Book Club display at W.H. Smith, Enfield. The following is a list of books from the Richard & Judy Book Club, featured on the television chat show. The show was cancelled in 2009, but since 2010 the lists have been continued by the Richard and Judy Book Club, a website run in conjunction with retailer W. H. Smith.
Oprah's Book Club was a book discussion club segment of the American talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, highlighting books chosen by host Oprah Winfrey. Winfrey started the book club in 1996, selecting a new book, usually a novel, for viewers to read and discuss each month. [1] [2] [3] In total, the club recommended 70 books during its 15 years.
The Book League of America, Inc. was a US book publisher and mail order book sales club.It was established in 1930, a few years after the Book of the Month Club. [1] Its founder was Lawrence Lamm, previously an editor at Macmillan Inc. [1] The company was located at 100 Fifth Avenue, New York City, New York, [2] in a 240,000-square-foot (22,000 m 2) office building that was constructed in 1906 ...
Simon J. Bronner (ed.), "Book Clubs", Encyclopedia of American Studies, Johns Hopkins University Press, OCLC 213273863 + "Print Culture" Rare Book School (in Virginia) bibliographies: History of the Book in America: A Survey from Colonial to Modern; History of the Book in America, c. 1700–1830; American Book in the Industrial Era, 1820–1940
The Chinese in America; Choosing Truman; Chronicles of America; Coffeeland; Colonial Spirits: A Toast to Our Drunken History; The Color of Law; The Colored Patriots of the American Revolution; Conceived in Liberty; Confederates in the Attic; Console Wars (book) Copeland's Cure; A Country of Vast Designs; Crabgrass Frontier; The Crossing (Murphy ...
During the years, more than a hundred books with the Book of Lists in their title appeared. [14] In 2005, a Canadian edition of The Book of Lists was published and credited to David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace, Ira Basen and Jane Farrow. The book contained a mixture of content from the original three volumes, mixed in with updated material, and ...