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Tycoon Made a Fortune Just to Give It Away

By Anne W. Howard

The Billionaire Who Wasn't: How Chuck Feeney Secretly Made and Gave Away a Fortune
by Conor O'Clery

Charles Feeney, the founder of the Atlantic Philanthropies, grew up in a working-class family in New Jersey. He amassed a fortune as the founder of Duty-Free Shoppers, a chain of retail stores, and one day in 1984 he signed nearly all his money...

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