{"product_id":"9780061748011","title":"Mine's Bigger: Tom Perkins and the Making of the Greatest Sailing Machine Ever Built","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the dominant venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, Tom Perkins had seemingly done it all—from amassing a billion-dollar fortune to getting himself convicted of manslaughter in France. But his ultimate dream was to create the biggest, fastest, riskiest, highest-tech, most self-indulgent sailboat ever built.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith keen storytelling and biting wit, bestselling author David A. Kaplan takes us inside the mind of an American genius and behind the scenes of an extraordinary venture: the birth of Perkins's $130 million marvel \u003cem\u003eThe Maltese Falcon\u003c\/em\u003e. This modern clipper ship is as long as a football field and forty-two feet wide, with three rotating masts, each twenty stories high, and a bridge straight out of \u003cem\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/em\u003e. The riveting biography of a remarkable ship and the remarkable man who built it, \u003cem\u003eMine's Bigger\u003c\/em\u003e is an unforgettable profile of ambition, hubris, audacity, and the imagination of a legendary entrepreneur. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078436471024,"sku":"9780061748011","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061748011_p0.jpg?v=1763621796","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061748011","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}