Words: Joseph Bullmore
There’s this lovely little bit in Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe’s novel about the brash tycoons who swaggered around 1980s New York, where a character describes $100 million as a “unit”. Why a unit? “A unit, of course, is a starting point.” Nine figures in your bank account is just the beginning. That sort of shtick sums up the attitude of the Steinbergs, a real family that lived on such an outrageous and grand scale that they could have walked out the pages of Wolfe’s book.
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