Jane Leavy Quotes
In Naples, Fla., I met a self-made man, a multimillionaire, whose round penthouse apartment is home to Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Henry Moore, and Mickey Mantle. He had purchased the most coveted items auctioned by the Mantle family at Madison Square Garden in December 2003.
Leavy, Jane. The Last Boy: Mickey Mantle and the End of America's Childhood. HarperCollins, 2010.
Likely misattributed. The phrase was popularized by the writer Orville Schell in "To Get Rich Is Glorious: China in the '80s" (1984) but Schell never actually attributed the words to Deng, telling the L.A. Times's Evelyn Iritani in 2004 that it merely "grew out of the zeitgeist" of China's economic reforms.
1st Earl of Beaconsfield. He coined the word and 1827 was its first use. Disraeli had not yet become a major political figure but was a writer and novelist.
Jane Leavy is an American sportswriter and feature writer, formerly with the Washington Post. She writes primarily about baseball.
