Timothy Dexter
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The Facebook bots kindly shared a mini-bio, in Spanish, of Timothy Dexter (1747–1806), history’s hombre más suertudo (luckiest man). It was intriguing enough that I went on to read Dexter’s Wikipedia bio. Then I read that bio aloud to Karin.
Certain commonalities with our President suggested themselves. Dexter, however, made money instead of losing it. And he didn’t start out with money from his father; he extracted it from his rich wife, whom he abused.
In business, he seems to have been lucky and devilishly intuitive, e.g. he turned a profit literally “shipping coal to Newcastle” (the proverbial expression for venturing into a saturated market).
I don’t intend to read any full-length biographies of Dexter. But I went looking anyway. Most are from the 1800s. The most recent notable book, the last edition of which is 65 years old, is by John P. Marquand – like Dexter, of Newburyport, MA – the author of the “Mr. Moto” fictions and the Pulitzer-winning, satirical Late George Apley. I wonder how serious his treatment of Dexter is.
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The Facebook bots kindly shared a mini-bio, in Spanish, of Timothy Dexter (1747–1806), history’s hombre más suertudo (luckiest man). It was intriguing enough that I went on to read Dexter’s Wikipedia bio. Then I read that bio aloud to Karin.
Certain commonalities with our President suggested themselves. Dexter, however, made money instead of losing it. And he didn’t start out with money from his father; he extracted it from his rich wife, whom he abused.
In business, he seems to have been lucky and devilishly intuitive, e.g. he turned a profit literally “shipping coal to Newcastle” (the proverbial expression for venturing into a saturated market).
I don’t intend to read any full-length biographies of Dexter. But I went looking anyway. Most are from the 1800s. The most recent notable book, the last edition of which is 65 years old, is by John P. Marquand – like Dexter, of Newburyport, MA – the author of the “Mr. Moto” fictions and the Pulitzer-winning, satirical Late George Apley. I wonder how serious his treatment of Dexter is.