Jerome Tuccille (1937–2017)

Author of It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand

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About the Author

Jerome Joseph Tuccille was born in the Bronx, New York on May 30, 1937. He received a degree in psychology from Manhattan College in 1959 and then entered the Marine Corps. In 1974, he ran for the governor of New York under the Free Libertarian Party. After his failed campaign left him broke, he show more became a stockbroker for Merrill Lynch and later for Shearson/American Express and other companies. In the 1990s, he became a financial writer for T. Rowe Price. His financial books included Everything the Beginner Needs to Know to Invest Shrewdly: A Step-By-Step Guide to the Basics of Financial Growth and The Optimist's Guide to Making Money in the 1980s: A Complete Program for Investing in the American Economic Miracle of the Next Decade. He wrote a series of biographies including Trump: The Saga of America's Most Powerful Real Estate Baron, Rupert Murdoch, Barry Diller: The Life and Times of a Media Mogul, and Alan Shrugged: Alan Greenspan, the World's Most Powerful Banker. He also wrote books on his encounters with libertarianism and his intellectual development including Radical Libertarianism: A Right Wing Alternative, It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand, It Still Begins with Ayn Rand: Part Two of a Libertarian Odyssey, and Heretic: Confessions of an Ex-Catholic Rebel. One of his last book, The Roughest Riders: The Untold Story of the Black Soldiers in the Spanish-American War, was published in 2015. He died from complications of multiple myeloma on February 16, 2017 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Works by Jerome Tuccille

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It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand (1972) 66 copies, 4 reviews

Alan Shrugged: Alan Greenspan, the World's Most Powerful Banker (2002) 30 copies, 2 reviews

Trump: The Saga of America's Most Powerful Real Estate Baron (1985) 26 copies, 1 review

Kingdom: The Story of the Hunt Family of Texas (1984) 22 copies

Rupert Murdoch (1989) 18 copies

Hemingway and Gellhorn: The Untold Story of Two Writers, Espionage, War, and the Great Depression (2011) 15 copies, 2 reviews

Radical Libertarianism: A Right Wing Alternative (1971) 13 copies

The Roughest Riders: The Untold Story of the Black Soldiers in the Spanish-American War (2015) 13 copies

Gallo Be Thy Name: The Inside Story of How One Family Rose to Dominate the U.S. Wine Market (2009) 12 copies

It Still Begins With Ayn Rand (1999) 10 copies

Who's Afraid of 1984? The Case for Optimism in Looking Ahead to the 1980s (1975) 6 copies

The War Against the Vets: The World War I Bonus Army during the Great Depression (2018) 5 copies

Everything the Beginner Needs to Know to Invest Shrewdly: A Step-By-Step Guide to the Basics of Financial Growth (1979) 5 copies

Inside the Underground (1982) 4 copies

Dynamic Investing (1981) 4 copies

Murdoch: A Biography (1990) 3 copies

Gallery of Fools: The True Story of a Celebrated Manhattan Art Theft (2008) 3 copies

Wall Street Blues (1988) 3 copies

The Optimist's Guide to Making Money in the 1980's: A Complete Program for Investing in the American Economic Miracle… (1978) 3 copies

Heretic: Confessions of an Ex-Catholic Rebel (2006) 2 copies

Here comes immortality (1973) 2 copies

Mind over money: Why most people lose money in the stock market and how you can become a winner (1980) 2 copies

The Double: Churchill, Hitler, and the Duel Over Rudolf Hess (2011) 2 copies

After the Murder of Jesus Christ (Volume 1) (2012) 1 copy

How to Profit on Wall Street 1 copy

King Of Media: The Barry Diller Story (2010) 1 copy

A Portrait of Hemingway as a Young Man: Romping Through Paris in the 1920s (2010) 1 copy, 1 review

King of Media: The Barry Diller Story Revised and Updated (2011) 1 copy

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Legal name: Tucille, Jerome Joseph
Other names: TUCCILLE, Jerome Joseph
TUCCILLE, Jerome
Birthdate: 1937-05-30
Date of death: 2017-02-16
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Bronx, New York, USA
Place of death: Severna Park, Maryland, USA
Education: Manhattan College (BS|Psychology|1959)
Occupations: company vice-president
Organizations: T. Rowe Price Investment Services

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It usually begins with Ayn Rand by Jerome Tuccille

This is a memoir or rather an odyssey of sorts about the road taken by many in the 1960s in their search for an alternative to traditional politics. It is those who were inspired by the novels of Ayn Rand and sought alternatives that allowed more individual freedom. In Tucille's case that led to a sort of radical libertarianism bordering on anarchism.

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jwhenderson | 3 other reviews | Jun 24, 2022 |

It Usually Begins With Ayn Rand by Jerome Tuccille

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laplantelibrary | 3 other reviews | Dec 9, 2021 |

Alan shrugged : the life and times of Alan G… by Jerome Tuccille

Greenspan, Alan (Subject)

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LOM-Lausanne | 1 other review | Apr 30, 2020 |

A Portrait of Hemingway as a Young Man: Romping… by Jerome Tuccille

I read this earlier book after already reading the sequel "Hemingway and Gellhorn: The Untold Story of Two Writers, Espionage, War, and the Great Depression" and this was definitely in the same trashy exploitative vein as the second one.

it makes for some entertainment but rewriting Hemingway's own Paris memoir "A Moveable Feast" as biography (when Hemingway himself admitted it could be read as fiction and a lot of it has been proved as such in Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin's "Ernest Hemingway's a Moveable Feast") seems like an invitation to be prosecuted for plagiarism… (more)

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alanteder | Sep 27, 2014 |

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