{"product_id":"9781589636194","title":"Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford","description":"The arrival of Mrs. Wallingford set upon a much higher plane her husband's already well-established reputation as a capitalist of illimitable resources... \"She is a stunner,\" [Doctor Feldmeyer] declared, with the faintest suggestion of a smirk, \"and carries herself like a queen. She wears a fur coat that cost not less than six or seven hundred dollars, and not a woman in this town has such diamonds...\"\u003cbr\u003e-from Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford\u003cp\u003ePart of Chester's popular fictional series about a scheming industrialist, this satirical novel, \"a cheerful account of the rise and fall of an American Business Buccaneer,\" relates the business crimes and misdemeanors of J. Rufus Wallingford, who inhabits a world wherein a good stomach for strong drink is worth thousands of dollars, philanthropy and profit are intimately intertwined, and preying upon widows and orphans is all in a day's work. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1908, this wickedly funny work is just as pointed today as it was a century ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican journalist and novelist GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER (1869-1924) was a regular contributor to Collier's and Everybody's Magazine. He is also the author of Five Thousand an Hour: How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress and The Early Bird: A Business Man's Love Story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fredonia Books (NL)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47036695150832,"sku":"9781589636194","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781589636194_p0.jpg?v=1763801887","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781589636194","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}