The authoritative biography of Michael Bloomberg: business genius, inventor, innovator, publisher, philanthropist, activist, and presidential candidate. With unparalleled gain access to, a veteran New York Moments reporter and editorial article writer who covered New York City and condition politics offers a revealing family portrait of one of the richest and famously private/public numbers in the country.

Michael Bloomberg’s existence appears like an exaggerated version of The American Story, except his activities are real..Read More about THE COUNTLESS Lives of Michael Bloomberg: Innovation, Money, and Politics

From modest Jewish middle class (and Eagle Scout) to Harvard MBA to Salomon Brothers hot shot (where he gets “sent upstairs” and afterwards terminated) to inventor of the device that would change Wall Street and all of those other globe and make him a billionaire (a description by the author makes the invention clear to non-engineers).

Randolph’s accounts of Bloomberg’s existence and time reads almost like a novel, a quintessentially American story. She points out the “machine” he invented that provided and continues to give instant access for an infinite quantity of information to bankers and investors on how, what, and where you can invest, and exactly how it transformed the financial world.

Randolph recounts 1 day recently when the Bloomberg machine briefly blipped and the complete world’s financial industry found a halt.

Randolph recounts Mayor Bloomberg’s energetic approach to New York city’s treatment—including his efforts at education reform, agreement control, anti-smoking and anti-obesity campaigns, green weather control, and his politics escapades with both aides and opponents.

After a astonishing third term as Mayor, Bloomberg came back to his business and doubles its already tremendous value. The section that describes this is perhaps one of the most exposing of his character and energy and vision as well as how he spends his “private” period—private but convivial.

Bloomberg’s philanthropies are education, anti-NRA, and assisting a cleaner environment. He is a moderate liberal in a time when that quality holds the future of the Democratic Party and the united states to account.