Suze Orman's Financial Guidebook: Putting the 9 Steps to Work
Author: Suze Orman
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With her New York Times bestseller The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, America’s leading financial expert Suze Orman transformed the concept of money forever by teaching us to recognize the emotional aspects of our relationship with it. Now, this fully revised edition of Suze Orman’s Financial Guidebook translates Suze’s own brand of motivation and inspiration into a user-friendly, hands-on workbook that will empower you to work through the nuts and bolts of personal finance, with Suze as your trusted adviser.
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• Insightful exercises, quizzes, and worksheets to help you understand how your parents’ relationship with money affects yours, and what money means to you
• Up-to-the-minute information on tax codes, IRA rules and regulations, and long-term-care insurance
• Useful strategies for coping with the ever-changing landscape of educational costs, social security, and the stock market
• An outline of key questions that every financial adviser should ask you upon your initial meeting
• An in-depth analysis of all your monthly expenses, providing a realistic picture of just how much money you have to work with and how you may not be respecting your money as much as you should
Regardless of your age and income, it is never too early or too late to take control of your money. Suze Orman’s Financial Guidebook is the perfect companion to The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom, the personal finance classic thatchanged the way millions of Americans viewed money. Full of self-tests, thought-provoking questions, and Suze’s easy-to-understand personal finance advice, here is your empowering approach to achieving financial freedom forever, with the best guide possible.
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Judgment of Paris: California vs. France and the Historic 1976 Paris Tasting That Revolutionized Wine
Author: George M Taber
The Paris Tasting of 1976 will forever be remembered as the landmark event that transformed the wine industry. At this legendary contest -- a blind tasting -- a panel of top French wine experts shocked the industry by choosing unknown California wines over France's best.
George M. Taber, the only reporter present, recounts this seminal contest and its far-reaching effects, focusing on three gifted unknowns behind the winning wines: a college lecturer, a real estate lawyer, and a Yugoslavian immigrant. With unique access to the main players and a contagious passion for his subject, Taber renders this historic event and its tremendous aftershocks -- repositioning the industry and sparking a golden age for viticulture across the globe. With an eclectic cast of characters and magnificent settings, Judgment of Paris is an illuminating tale and a story of the entrepreneurial spirit of the new world conquering the old.
Publishers Weekly
In 1976, a Paris wine shop arranged a tasting as a gimmick to introduce some California wines; the judges, of course, were all French and militantly chauvinistic. Only one journalist bothered to attend, a Time correspondent, looking for a possible American angle. The story he got turned out to be a sensation. In both red and white blind tastings, an American wine won handily: a 1973 Stag's Leap cabernet and a 1973 Chateau Montelena chardonnay. When the story was published the following week, it stunned both the complacent French and fledgling American wine industries-and things have never been the same since. Taber, the Time man, has fashioned an entertaining, informative book around this event. Following a brisk history of the French-dominated European wine trade with a more detailed look at the less familiar American effort, he focuses on the two winning wineries, both of which provide him with lively tales of colorful amateurs and immigrants making good, partly through willingness to experiment with new techniques. While the outrage of some of the judges is funny, this is a serious business book, too, sure to be required reading for American vintners and oenophiles. Photos. Agent, Wendy Silbert. (Sept. 27) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Library Journal
More has happened in the wine field in the past four decades than in the previous four centuries. The turning point in the growing, producing, and drinking of wine in California was an obscure blind tasting that took place in Paris on May 24, 1976. As the only journalist who bothered to cover the event, Taber has a distinctive take on the phenomenal growth of the wine industry. He covers much more than just the Paris tasting that judged California wines superior to France's best, chronicling the history of California wine production from its low-quality beginnings to today's huge industry. He also follows the life paths of the two California winemakers-Mike Grgich and Warren Winiarski-whose wines placed first in the 1976 Paris tasting, and he recounts the histories of the industry's chief personalities and their wineries. Elin McCoy's more engaging The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr. and the Reign of American Taste deals with a similar time period in the wine industry; however, Taber's fact-laden book will appeal to California wine enthusiasts and others interested in the details of the 1976 Paris wine tasting. Recommended. (Index, illustrations, and maps not seen.)-Ann Weber, Bellarmine Coll. Prep. Lib., San Jose, CA Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Kirkus Reviews
A vigorous account of the dare that made connoisseurs think differently about California wines-and that brought great wealth to Golden State vintners. There are doubtless those who still think that French wine means Montrachet, while California wine means Thunderbird. Steven Spurrier, an English wine merchant transplanted to Paris, shared some of that prejudice, but he allowed himself to be pleasantly surprised when journalists and winemakers cajoled him to try some of the new breed of California varietals, which went far beyond what screw-top Paul Masson wines offer. Spurrier organized a blind tasting with a panel made up of France's best-known wine experts, among them the inspector general of the Appellation d'Origine Controlee Board and the editor of the Revue du Vin de France. A superb Chateau Montalena 1973 Chardonnay took top prize, grown in the rich soil of Calistoga, at great remove from the prized terroir of Burgundy or Bordeaux. Still, as Taber notes in his superb disquisition on how wines are made and who has been making them, French and American wines have been sharing tables for generations: It was American rootstock that saved the French wine industry in the 19th century, French grapes that elevated California wines above bathtub plonk. And Taber's cast of characters is a fascinatingly mixed lot, too: a Chicago classicist who took up winemaking, a Croatian refugee who helped prove that Zinfandel originated in his homeland and the children and grandchildren of Italian immigrants who insisted, against the suspicions of their Protestant neighbors, that drinking wine was a good thing. The upshot: a magnificent California wine industry, and a scene much different from that of1976. Writes Taber: "The dynamic part of the world wine business today is not in Europe, but in the New World-Argentina, Australia, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States."An intoxicating indulgence for Sideways fans, and an education for would-be wine sophisticates.
Table of Contents:
| Foreword | ||
| Ch. 1 | The little wine shop in Cite Berryer | 7 |
| Ch. 2 | France ruled the world | 17 |
| Ch. 3 | The new Eden | 29 |
| Ch. 4 | California dreamer | 45 |
| Ch. 5 | Starting over in America | 57 |
| Ch. 6 | A revolution begins | 68 |
| Ch. 7 | The swashbuckling wine years | 73 |
| Ch. 8 | In search of a simpler life | 83 |
| Ch. 9 | An apprentice winemaker | 91 |
| Ch. 10 | The rise of Robert Mondavi | 100 |
| Ch. 11 | Launching a new winery | 106 |
| Ch. 12 | A case of industrial-strength burnout | 115 |
| Ch. 13 | The rebirth of a ghost winery | 123 |
| Ch. 14 | Making the 1973 Stag's Leap Wine Cellars cabernet sauvignon | 131 |
| Ch. 15 | Making the 1973 Chateau Montelena chardonnay | 142 |
| Ch. 16 | Voyages of discovery | 155 |
| Ch. 17 | California wines at the tasting | 165 |
| Ch. 18 | French wines at the tasting | 185 |
| Ch. 19 | A stunning upset | 197 |
| Ch. 20 | The buzz heard round the world | 213 |
| Ch. 21 | A dream fulfilled | 225 |
| Ch. 22 | The globalization of wine | 230 |
| Ch. 23 | Dispatches from the international wine trade | 243 |
| Ch. 24 | France revisited | 275 |
| Ch. 25 | Napa Valley revisited | 289 |
| App | Scorecards for the judgment of Paris |
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