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The Great Getty

Audiobook

"I feel no qualms or reticence about likening The Getty Oil Company to an empire-and myself to a Caesar." "The meek shall inherit the earth-but not the mineral rights." "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." Getty on Getty "I wanted to find the real Getty. I wanted to explain how he made his incredible fortune and what this effort did not to him…and those around him. Robert Lenzner In This first in-depth biography of the world's richest man, Boston Globe correspondent Robert Lenzner has done just that. Through interviews with those who were closest to Getty, the picture emerges of a truly miserly art collector, the great lover, the bigamist, the puritan, philanthropist, the suspected Nazi spy…


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Publisher: Phoenix Books, Inc. Edition: Abridged

OverDrive Listen audiobook

  • File size: 84306 KB
  • Release date: September 15, 2009
  • Duration: 02:55:38

MP3 audiobook

  • File size: 84465 KB
  • Release date: September 15, 2009
  • Duration: 02:55:38
  • Number of parts: 3

Formats

OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook

Languages

English

"I feel no qualms or reticence about likening The Getty Oil Company to an empire-and myself to a Caesar." "The meek shall inherit the earth-but not the mineral rights." "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." Getty on Getty "I wanted to find the real Getty. I wanted to explain how he made his incredible fortune and what this effort did not to him…and those around him. Robert Lenzner In This first in-depth biography of the world's richest man, Boston Globe correspondent Robert Lenzner has done just that. Through interviews with those who were closest to Getty, the picture emerges of a truly miserly art collector, the great lover, the bigamist, the puritan, philanthropist, the suspected Nazi spy…


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