Grand Ambition - An Extraordinary Yacht, the People Who Built It, and The Millionaire Who Can't Really Afford It
Year: 2013 Language: English Author: G. Bruce Knecht Genre: Handbook Publisher: Simon & Schuster Edition: 1 ISBN: 978-1-4165-7600-6 Format: PDF Quality: Scanned pages + text layer Pages count: 266 Description: “Bruce Knecht is my kind of reporter—a master storyteller with a great eye for the tales of our time. Grand Ambition is centered around the building of a huge yacht, but it is ultimately about our bipolar society—the rarefied lifestyles of the very, very rich and the day-to-day realities of blue-collar laborers who have never worked indoors or been paid more than $20 an hour.” — TOM BROKAW “Reads like a novel of suspense and financial intrigue, proving that fact is often stranger and more unbelievable than fiction. A great read and a cautionary tale for all of us whose ambitions exceed our means.” — NELSON DeMILLE “Knecht deftly tells a tale of craftsmanship and conspicuous consumption, and he challenges us to think about the boundary separating ambition and hubris, creativity and narcissism. Above all, he paints compelling portraits of the dedicated craftsmen who designed and built her.” — STEVEN UJIFUSA, author of A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the SS United States “If this lively book doesn’t ‘lift your boat,’ nothing will!” — STEVE FORBES
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Grand Ambition - An Extraordinary Yacht, the People Who Built It, and The Millionaire Who Can't Really Afford It
Language: English
Author: G. Bruce Knecht
Genre: Handbook
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Edition: 1
ISBN: 978-1-4165-7600-6
Format: PDF
Quality: Scanned pages + text layer
Pages count: 266
Description: “Bruce Knecht is my kind of reporter—a master storyteller with a great eye for the tales of our time. Grand Ambition is centered around the building of a huge yacht, but it is ultimately about our bipolar society—the rarefied lifestyles of the very, very rich and the day-to-day realities of blue-collar laborers who have never worked indoors or been paid more than $20 an hour.” — TOM BROKAW
“Reads like a novel of suspense and financial intrigue, proving that fact is often stranger and more unbelievable than fiction. A great read and a cautionary tale for all of us whose ambitions exceed our means.” — NELSON DeMILLE
“Knecht deftly tells a tale of craftsmanship and conspicuous consumption, and he challenges us to think about the boundary separating ambition and hubris, creativity and narcissism. Above all, he paints compelling portraits of the dedicated craftsmen who designed and built her.” — STEVEN UJIFUSA, author of A Man and His Ship: America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the SS United States
“If this lively book doesn’t ‘lift your boat,’ nothing will!” — STEVE FORBES
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