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CAFARAKIS, CHRISTIAN Fabulous Onassis: His Life and Loves
William Morrow & Company, 1972. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Good. BOOK CLUB HARDCOVER. Minimal dust jacket edge wear, ink on front free endpaper, pages beginning to tone, ribbon marker attached to inside of back cover. "Onassis was born in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (now I.zmir, Turkey) to a middle-class Greek family. At the time of his birth, Smyrna had a very significant and prosperous Greek population. After being briefly occupied by Greece (1919-1922) in the aftermath of the allied victory in World War I, the city was re-captured by Turkey; the Onassis family holdings were lost, causing them to move to Greece as refugees. In 1923, Aristotle Onassis left his country to go to Argentina with allegedly only $63. After difficult beginnings, he revived the family's tobacco business.[2] In 1925, he received Argentinian and Greek citizenships. After engaging in many different entrepreneurial activities with determination and passion for success, he finally managed to become a world-class businessman making his first million by the age of 25, [3] owning commercial ships, tankers and whalers. In 1954, the FBI investigated Onassis for fraud against the U.S. government. He was charged with violating the citizenship provision of the shipping laws which require that all ships displaying the U.S. flag be owned by U.S. citizens. Onassis entered a guilty plea and paid $7 million. He founded Olympic Airways (today Olympic Airlines), the Greek national carrier, in 1957." -- Wikipedia.
Offered for US$ 3.75 by: Yesterday's Muse Books - Book number: 068103