{"product_id":"empire-of-deception-unabridged-8-disc-set","title":"Empire Of Deception Unabridged 8-Disc Set","description":"Empire Of Deception Unabridged 8-Disc Dean Jobb AUDIO BOOK CD Ponzi Scheme story \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp class=\"proAttr productType\"\u003e\u003clabel\u003eType: \u003c\/label\u003e Audio Book \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"proAttr productType\"\u003e\u003clabel\u003ePlatform: \u003c\/label\u003e Audio CD \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"proAttr productType\"\u003e\u003clabel\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/label\u003e HighBridge Company \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"proAttr productType\"\u003e\u003clabel\u003eReleased: \u003c\/label\u003e 2015 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"proAttr productType\"\u003e\u003clabel\u003eMedia: \u003c\/label\u003e CD \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cshortdescription\u003e\u003c\/shortdescription\u003eEMPIRE OF DECEPTION  UNABRIDGED 8-DISC SET\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A brilliantly researched tale of greed, ambition, and our desperate need to believe in magic, it's history that captures America as it really was—and always will be. A great read.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Douglas Perry, author of Eliot Ness\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was a time of unregulated madness. And nowhere was it madder than in Chicago at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. As Model T's rumbled down Michigan Avenue, gang war shootings announced Al Capone's rise to underworld domination. Bedecked partygoers thronged to the Drake Hotel's opulent banquet rooms, corrupt politicians held court in thriving speakeasies, and the frenzy of stock market gambling was rampant.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnter a slick, smooth-talking, charismatic lawyer named Leo Koretz, who enticed hundreds of people (who should have known better) to invest as much as $30 million—upwards of $400 million today—in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama. It was an ingenious deceit, one that out-ponzied Charles Ponzi himself, who only a few years earlier had been arrested for a pyramid scheme. Leo had a good run—his was perhaps the longest fraud in history—and when his enterprise finally collapsed in 1923, he vanished. The Cook County state's attorney, a man whose lust for power equaled Leo's own lust for money, began an international manhunt that lasted almost a year. When finally apprehended, Leo was living a life of luxury in Nova Scotia under the assumed identity of a book dealer and literary critic. A salacious court hearing followed, and his mysterious death in a Chicago prison rivaled the rest of his almost too-bizarre-to-believe life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA rip-roaring tale of greed, financial corruption, dirty politics, over-the-top and under-the-radar deceit, illicit sex, and a brilliant and wildly charming con man on the town and then on the lam, Empire of Deception has it all. It's not only a rich and detailed account of a man and an era; it's a fascinating look at the methods of swindlers throughout history. Leo Koretz was the Bernie Madoff of his day, and Dean Jobb shows us that the American dream of easy wealth is timeless.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDean Jobb is an award-winning writer and journalist whose work has appeared in major newspapers and magazines in Canada and the United States. The author of six previous books, he is a professor at the School of Journalism, University of King's College, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnabridged • 9½ Hours on 8 CDs • Read by Peter Berkrot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor CD Player\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"HighBridge Company","offers":[{"title":"Used In Box","offer_id":50035289653526,"sku":"115604","price":10.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0083\/0377\/1710\/files\/20255918610183scan.jpg?v=1747275089","url":"https:\/\/www.neverdiemedia.com\/products\/empire-of-deception-unabridged-8-disc-set","provider":"NeverDieMedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}