{"product_id":"the-billionaire-who-wasnt-how-chuck-feeney-made-and-gave-away-a-fortune-without-anyone-knowing","title":"The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Made and Gave Away a Fortune Without Anyone Knowing","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1988 Forbes Magazine hailed Chuck Feeney as the twenty-third richest American alive. Born in Elizabeth  New Jersey to a blue-collar Irish-American family during the Depression  a veteran of the Korean War  he had made a fortune as co-founder of Duty Free Shoppers  the worlds largest duty-free retail chain. But secretly  Feeney had already transferred all his wealth to his foundation  Atlantic Philanthropies. Only in 1997  when he sold his duty free interests  was he \"outed\" as one of the greatest and most mysterious American philanthropists in modern times. A frugal man who travels economy class and does not own a house or a car  Feeney then went \"underground\" again  until he decided in 2005 to cooperate in a biography to promote giving-while-living. Now in his mid-seventies  he is determined his foundation should spend the remaining 4 billion in his lifetime. The Billionaire Who Wasnt is a tale of one of the greatest untold retail triumphs of the twentieth century  and of what happens to a unique man and his family when confronted with wealth beyond imagining.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44983912005685,"sku":"ByrdShop_1586483919","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781586483913.jpg?v=1770813682","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-billionaire-who-wasnt-how-chuck-feeney-made-and-gave-away-a-fortune-without-anyone-knowing","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}