Superbly illustrated, it nearly bankrupted its author and sold fewer than 200 copies.
(Our guide told us that Twain and his wife, Olivia Langdon Clemens, the daughter of a rich coal baron, had spent thousands of dollars a year on its upkeep; they were forced to move out in 1891 after a few lousy tech investments left the author bankrupt).
Young Americans are facing higher levels of poverty, unemployment, and student loan debt than the two generations before them, and their predicament is fueling the view that the American Dream is bankrupt, according to the authors of a new State of the Millennial Report.
Ten years ago, two professors at Biola University, a conservative Christian institution, wrote a book assailing the Jesus Seminar, titled "Jesus Under Fire". "They leave people spiritually bankrupt and hopeless," the two authors, Michael J. Wilkins and J.P. Moreland, wrote of the seminar.
— Bruce Bartlett, author of "Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy".
Jourdain, a wealthy couple into whose existence the young Molière — not yet a famous author, merely the actor-manager of a bankrupt theatrical troupe — is plunged, in 1644.
Shortly afterwards, Borders entered the UK market, hundreds of UK independent bookshops went bankrupt and publishers decided to change their contracts with authors.
The couple had recently descended into heroin addiction, leaving Lennon, in author Peter Doggett's words, "emotionally removed and artistically bankrupt".
Daniel Gross, author of "Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation," is the economics editor and columnist at Yahoo Financee.
In his enthusiasm and liberality with his authors, Constable overextended his resources, and in 1826 Constable and Company went bankrupt.
