Chasing Mammon

Money As A Weapon. Money As Revenge. Money As A Substitute For Sex And Love. Money As Status ... This Intriguing And Extraordinarily Well-written Book Is Cheering For Those Of Us Who Aren't Rich, And Will Go Happily To Our Graves Without Ever Pulling Down £300,000 Per Annum' Simon Hoggart, Literary Review 'how We Chase Mammon Defines Us. Because, Like It Or Not, We Are What We Earn,' Chasing Mammon Is The First Travel Book Ever Written About The Uses Of Money And The Attitudes Of The Wheelers And Dealers In The International Marketplace. Douglas Kennedy Spent A Year Loitering With Intent In Six Very Disparate Financial Realms, Including The Casablanca Bourse (where Stocks And Bonds Are Listed On A Blackboard), The Squeaky-clean Singapore Money Markets, The Sydney Futures Market And The First Hungarian Stock Exchange To Open Since 1948. From The 'new Age' City Folk In London, Unsure Whether Greed Really Is Good For You, To The Tireless Toilers Of Wall Street, Knnedy's Encounters With Money-makers Around The Globe Make For An Exhilarating And Quirkily Original Journey Through The Modern Cash Nexus. This is a chronicle of travels through modern Egypt; a landscape strewn with incongruities and peopled by a vivid cast of characters. Their stories form part of Kennedy's funny, yet ultimately serious portrait of Egypt today. Sidestepping the usual assortment of pyramids, Kennedy discovers an Egypt in which Bedouin watch American television, monks have word processors and everything is a world away from the common archaelogical theme park image usually accorded this country. This book is Douglas Kennedy's account of the summer he spent cruising through "The Bible Belt" of the American South trying to discover what sort of crisis, need or sense of emptiness pushed people into "declaring for Jesus" * Taps into the enduring fascination with all things Egyptian e.g. Rameses series. *Travels through the extraordinary American bible belt