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Author : Tracy Kidder
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A Truck Full of Money: One Mans Quest to Recover from Great Success

A Truck Full of Money: One Mans Quest to Recover from Great Success

Author : Tracy Kidder
Binding : HARDCOVER

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ENGLISH
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9780812995244
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160 mm
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242 mm
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524 gram
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HARDCOVER
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20 SEPTEMBER 2016
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Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy - the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Paul English, the founder of Kayak.com and Lola Travel. Tracy Kidder, the master of the nonfiction narrative ( The Baltimore Sun ) and author of the bestselling classic The Soul of a New Machine, now tells the story of Paul English, a kinetic and unconv Fortune, mania, genius, philanthropy - the bestselling author of Mountains Beyond Mountains gives us the inspiring story of Paul English, the founder of Kayak.com and Lola Travel. Tracy Kidder, the master of the nonfiction narrative ( The Baltimore Sun ) and author of the bestselling classic The Soul of a New Machine, now tells the story of Paul English, a kinetic and unconventional inventor and entrepreneur, who as a boy rebelled against authority. Growing up in working-class Boston, English discovered a medium for his talents the first time he saw a computer. As a young man, despite suffering from what would eventually be diagnosed as bipolar disorder, he began his pilgrims journey through the ups and downs in the brave new world of computers. Relating to the Internet as if it was an extension of his own mind, he discovered that he had a talent for conceiving innovative enterprises and building teams that could develop them, becoming a Pied Piper of geeks. His innovative management style, success, and innate sense of fair play inspire intense loyalty. Early on, one colleague observed: Someday this boy is going to get hit by a truck full of money, and Im going to be standing beside him. Yet when English does indeed make a fortune, when the travel website Kayak is sold for almost two billion dollars the first thing he thinks about is how to give the money away: What else would you do with it? The second thing he thinks is, What s next? With the power of a consummate storyteller, Tracy Kidder casts a fresh, critical, and often humorous eye on the way new ideas and new money are reshaping our culture and the world. A Truck Full of Money is a mesmerizing portrait of an irresistibly endearing man who is indefatigable, original, and as unpredictable as America itself. Advance praise for A Truck Full of Money includes: A perfectly executed, exquisitely reported parable of the Internet age, and the wild, mad adventure that is start-up culture. - Charles Duhigg A Truck Full of Money brings us into unknown spaces of the complex workings of the mind of a brilliant software engineer, of this new decade, of the brutal/fast business of technology, of stunning privilege, and of one man s efforts to put his fortune to humane use. - Adrian Nicole LeBlanc The story of [an] entrepreneurs remarkable life [and] the new American economy and the technological world that built it. More engrossing work from a gifted practitioner of narrative nonfiction. - Kirkus Reviews

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Tracy Kidder

Tracy Kidder is an American author and Vietnam War veteran. Kidder may be best known, especially within the computing community, for his Pulitzer Prize-winning The Soul of a New Machine, an account of the development of Data Generals Eclipse/MV minicomputer. The book typifies his distinctive style of research. He began following the project at its inception and, in addition to interviews, spent considerable time observing the engineers at work and outside of it. Using this perspective he was able to produce a more textured portrait of the development process than a purely retrospective study might.

Kidder followed up with House, in which he chronicles the design and construction of the award-winning Souweine House in Amherst, Massachusetts. House reads like a novel, but it is based on many hours of research with the architect, builders, clients, in-laws, and other interested parties.

In 2003, Kidder also published Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure The World after a chance encounter with Paul Farmer. The book was held to wide critical acclaim and became a New York Times bestseller. The actor Edward Norton has claimed it was one of the books which has had a profound influence on him.