Millionaire Republican: Why Rich Republicans Get Rich--and How You Can Too! - Hardcover

Root, Wayne Allyn

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585424307 ISBN 13: 9781585424306

Publisher: Tarcher, 2005

Synopsis

Outlines fifteen counterintuitive rules for creating personal wealth in today's Republican-dominated era, predicting continued growth in America's "red state" regions while providing advice on how to capitalize on Social Security privatization, invest in foreign real estate, become a "millionaire Republican" through charitable giving, and more. By the author of The Zen of Gambling. 17,500 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Wayne Allyn Root, America's leading professional sports handicapper, is the star of Spike TV's Wayne Allyn Root's WinningEDGE and host of the Winning EDGE radio show, heard on major sports stations around the country.

From Publishers Weekly:

Root, author of The Zen of Gambling, has made millions as a television sports-betting handicapper. This chest-thumping political screed-cum motivational tract systematizes that accomplishment into "The 18 Republican Secrets of Mega-Wealth and Unlimited Success"-a hodgepodge of self-help nostrums about positive thinking, clean living and the centrality of salesmanship to all human achievement, with a smattering of financial opportunism. (Secret #3 is "Own Real Estate in International Tax Havens.") But Root also aspires to public office, so he devotes most of the book to partisan vitriol. Republicans, he asserts, are "daring risk-takers" whose "ambition, drive, vision, courage, confidence and commitment" prompts them to start businesses and enter the "Investor Class." Democrats, deluded by "corrupt, soulless" liberals, prefer a "'safe' (but mediocre) paycheck" to the challenge of entrepreneurship and therefore lead "lives of despair...working in jobs they hate for bosses they despise...dependent on Big Brother" and are reduced to "complaining, whining, attending protests" and taxing Republicans. Throughout, the author seethes with class resentment against the even wealthier "spoiled-brat trust-fund crowd," who supposedly advocate high taxes on the rich to keep others from becoming rich. Root is rarely coherent or engaging; the book feels like an infomercial harangue interspersed with the sort of off-the-wall rant you would expect if you asked your bookie for his political philosophy. In it, one can make out the tenets of contemporary casino capitalism: the risk-taking investor is the hero of the economy, wage labor is a dead-end for suckers and the millionaire is the champion of the little guy against the elitists. Never mind liberal democrats; Republicans themselves may cringe at this ugly, fatuous rendering of their world-view.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Tarcher
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1585424307
• ISBN 13: 9781585424306
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256