May 28, 2013

Building a Castle in the Ozarks

A Frenchman is building a 13th century castle in the Arkansas Ozarks with local laborers and 13th century tools. The goal is tourism, of course. But when it comes to the castle itself, Mr. Guyot makes no concessions to modernity—except for those mandated by federal workplace requirements. Workers, though dressed in medieval garb, must wear

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The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to a Billion-Dollar Online Poker Empire

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House — the sources for the films The Social Network and 21 — comes the larger-than-life true tale of a group of American college buddies who brilliantly built a billion-dollar online poker colossus based out of the hedonistic paradise of

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