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Mitchell Zuckoff

Mitchell Zuckoff

professor, journalism, Boston University

Mitchell Zuckoff is a professor of journalism at Boston University. He is the author of Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend, and Choosing Naia: A Family's Journey, and co-author with Dick Lehr of Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders. His magazine work has appeared in The New Yorker, Fortune and elsewhere. [more]

Ponzi's Scheme: True Story of a Financial Legend

Mitchell Zuckoff

November 3, 2005

Mitchell Zuckoff discusses Charles Ponzi's mercurial rise and fall as he conjured up one get-rich-quick scheme after another. Zuckoff reveals how The Boston Post uncovered this "robbing Peter to pay Paul" system (as it was then known), and how Ponzi's life unraveled.

Ponzi's Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend

Author: Mitchell Zuckoff

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks (2006)

Binding: Paperback, 416 pages

Choosing Naia: A Family's Journey

Author: Mitchell Zuckoff

Publisher: Beacon Press (2003)

Binding: Paperback, 240 pages

Judgment Ridge: The True Story Behind the Dartmouth Murders

Author: Dick Lehr, Mitchell Zuckoff

Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (2004)

Binding: Paperback, 448 pages

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