The Futurist: A Novel
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| Издатель | | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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Содержание:
The Wandering Prince, A Health Unto His Majesty, Here Lies Our Sovereign Lord
Описание:
WHO IS THE FUTURIST? He once fired a man on Take Your Daughter to Work Day. He once was asked by the New York Times to write an Op-Ed piece on the death of literacy in America and had his assistant ghostwrite it. He once began his week ringing the bell at the New York Stock Exchange and ended it giving a speech about the future of greed to a group of seminary students. He once wrote the introduction to a book he never read, Beehive Management: How Life in the Honeycomb Translates to Winning in the Workplace . He once was an adviser for HeresWhatIDoMom.com, a company that made videos that explained people’s nebulous jobs to their confused parents. He once took batting practice with the New York Mets, pretending not to notice the eight-year-old boy with leukemia from the Make-A-Wish Foundation whom the PR director let him cut in front of because he had a plane to catch. He once gave a rousing motivational talk at the...Похожие книги
