Outrageous Good Fortune

by Michael Burke

Book Overview

Memoir with black and white plates, 422 pages. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316116793
• ISBN13: 9780316116794
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Little Brown and Company
• Length: 422 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.

Customer Reviews

one of the best autobiographies I've read

Mike Burke certainly did have outrageous good fortune in his lifetime. From OSS and CIA operative in WWII and the Cold war to Pres/CEO of Ringling Bros Circus, VP at CBS , Pres/CEO/Part owner of the NY Yankees, Pres/CEO of Madison Square Garden which included The Knicks and Rangers and finaling retiring to Ireland. An exciting, well-written chronicle of a very busy full life. He describes his friendships with Hemingway, Bill Donovan,Kim Philby,George Steinbrenner, William Paley,Reggie Jackson, Mickey Mantle and some not-so-friendly as Jimmy Hoffa and more. A cast of characters passed through his life that a fictional book author couldn't have better picked. I frankly couldn't put the book down.