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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. By the time the ...
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 .
The club also collaborated with "Proletpen", a Jewish proletarian writing group. It also supported the "United Front Conference Against Lynching", created by the New York district of the Communist Party USA. Books published by member writers included: Charles Yale Harrison's Generals Die in Bed and Mike Gold's children's story Charlie Chaplin's ...
A new book details the multi-billion dollar multi-level marketing industry in America. ... How multi-level marketing ‘pyramid schemes’ are bankrupting America. Caroline Howe. March 23, 2024 at ...
It is often simply called a book club, a term that may cause confusion with a book sales club. Other terms include reading group , book group , and book discussion group . Book discussion clubs may meet in private homes, libraries , bookstores , online forums, pubs, and cafés, or restaurants, sometimes over meals or drinks.
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 Pulpwood Queens is a meet-and-greet book club founded in early 2000 in Jefferson, Texas, by Kathy L. Patrick in a combined beauty salon and bookstore, Beauty and the Book. In a joint effort with Random House, the club spawned an Internet book club show that began in January 2011, Beauty and the Book: Where Reading is Always in Style. [1]
Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us is the debut book by Donald Trump Jr. [2] [3] It was published on November 5, 2019, by Center Street, a division of Hachette Book Group. [4] The book debuted at number one on the New York Times nonfiction bestseller list. [5] [6]