Download or read book The Rich are Different written by Jon Winokur and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1996 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For everyone who admires, envies, and loathes the one percent, here are the foibles and follies of such plutocrats as William Vanderbilt, Leona Helmsley, Aristotle Onassis, and Doris Duke. Readers learn how the super-rich get, conserve, and squander their fortunes, how they thwart tax collectors, buy legislative bodies and, quite literally, get away with murder.