Outrageous Good Fortune
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Book Overview
Memoir with black and white plates, 422 pages. This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0316116793
ISBN13:9780316116794
Release Date:January 1984
Publisher:Little Brown and Company
Length:422 Pages
Weight:1.80 lbs.
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one of the best autobiographies I've read
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Mike Burke certainly did have outrageous good fortune in his lifetime. From OSS and CIA operative in WWII and the Cold war to Pres/CEO of Ringling Bros Circus, VP at CBS , Pres/CEO/Part owner of the NY Yankees, Pres/CEO of Madison Square Garden which included The Knicks and Rangers and finaling retiring to Ireland. An exciting, well-written chronicle of a very busy full life. He describes his friendships with Hemingway, Bill Donovan,Kim Philby,George Steinbrenner, William Paley,Reggie Jackson, Mickey Mantle and some not-so-friendly as Jimmy Hoffa and more. A cast of characters passed through his life that a fictional book author couldn't have better picked. I frankly couldn't put the book down.
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