Chasing Mammon: Travels in the Pursuit of Money
HarperCollins, $32.95 hb
Travel
Chasing Mammon: Travels in the Pursuit of Money by Douglas Kennedy
by Rosemary Sorensen •
Douglas Kennedy is one of that group of travel writers who are annoyingly good at getting an angle on a story but never really making a point. He whisks us around the world, in this case around the money markets of the world, observing, picking up quotable quotes, telling tidy anecdotes, and in the end, back home, he snaps the lid on his collected experience and calls it a day. Easy listening, but perhaps a bit too easy.
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