Bøger af Tom Rubython

Jesse Livermore, was the most successful stock trader that ever operated. Singlehandedly he caused the two great Wall Street crashes of 1907 and 1929, making millions from both. Briefly in the early 1930s he was one of the world's richest men with a personal fortune believed to be worth over $150 million. It was too extreme a change of fortunes and Livermore shot himself in a New York hotel lobby in 1940 aged just 63.

This is the story of Richard Burton, a sweeping saga spanning 1898 to 1984, the most charismatic actor that walked the stage. Stretching from the coal mines of South Wales to the film sets of Hollywood, this far reaching biography reflects the entire life of one of the greatest Anglo-Americans of our time. The first actor to be paid a million dollars a film, he loved and lost some of the world's most beautiful women.