Zac Bissonnette wrote two acclaimed bestsellers before histwenty-fourth birthday- Debt-Free U and How to Be Richer, Smarter, andBetter-Looking Than Your Parents. He has contributed to the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe Magazine, the Daily Beast, and Bloomberg, among others. He lives in New York City.
“Enlightening…. He writes fluently and has structured his tale
artfully…. Most impressive of all, Mr. Bissonnette refuses to
gratuitously trumpet his story as an emblematic critique of
American culture, human folly or entrepreneurial greed—though of
course it is all that and more.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“Thanks to Bissonnette’s balanced and thorough reporting, the
account of Ty Warner, founder of the Babies, becomes a portrait of
a creator obsessed with perfection, making money in a business he
loved, in a company built on his dreams.”
—Booklist
“Bissonnette offers a crisp, investigative and presumably
unauthorized biography of creator Ty Warner, 70, and a look at the
rise of Beanie Babies and their swiftly ensuing three-year
consumer craze... A spicy portrait of a taciturn toy magnate made
entertaining with sensationalistic testimonial.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Equally heartwarming and heartbreaking, this accessible work will
captivate.”
—Library Journal, Starred review
“Bissonnette (Debt-Free U) does a masterful job of tracing the rise
and fall of the Beanie Baby phenomenon of the 1990s . . .
This cautionary tale of elevated consumerism, with collectors
fretting over what they didn’t have rather than taking pleasure in
what they did, serves as a useful history lesson for today, told
with wit and subtlety.”
—Publishers Weekly
“The spectacular story of the strangest speculative bubble there
ever was and the man behind it. A must-read for anyone looking to
understand how manias start and markets go insane."
—LIAQUAT AHAMED, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lords of
Finance
“In spare, elegant prose, Zac Bissonnette tells the riveting story
of how Ty Warner ruthlessly built Beanie Babies into a mania as
misguided and regrettable as the 1637 Dutch tulip craze and
mortgage-backed securities in 2008. You won’t be able to put this
book down.”
—WILLIAM D. COHAN, author of Money and Power
“The amazing story of the time the world lost its mind over little
beanbag critters named Punchers, Humphrey, and Wingless Quackers.
Zac Bissonnette takes us on a journey into the secretive world of
the man behind the mania, Ty Warner.”
—BILL DEDMAN, coauthor of the bestselling biography Empty Mansions
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