Patrick Hartigan

The Road to Ruin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Money can be so easy to lose and once it has gone the creditors can soon be lining up at our doors. It is, at the very least, comforting to know that should we encounter bankruptcy we will be in pretty good company. Patrick Hartigan's The Road to Ruin takes an entertaining look at some of history's more notable bankrupts. Some names in the list may be a surprise: Rembrandt, Defoe, Beau Brummel, Walt Disney ... so what brought these ostensibly rich and successful people to ruin? And how, if they managed it, did they succeed in digging themselves out? In stories of love, talent, arrogance, vanity and murder The Road to Ruin shows there is no template for a bankrupt, it just takes a certain mindset, the right conditions and down we go. But always remember, the rich have rich friends, the poor have the bailiffs.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd.
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 309g
• ISBN-13: 9781786128010
• ISBN-10: 1786128012
• Artikelnr.: 47580727

Autorenporträt

The author has spent many years handling the affairs of insolvent persons. He was President of the Insolvency Practitioners Association in 1993/94. He has published many articles in the professional press, and is the author of The ICSA Insolvency Guide, published by the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators in 2004. He lives in Stratford-upon Avon. In his spare time he is an amateur actor and delivers lectures on Famous Bankrupts.