George Barr McCutcheon wrote a book called Brewster’s Million in 1902 under the name of Richard Greaves. It has been made into a movie multiple times. There is a 1985 movie with Richard Pryor as Brewster and his side kick was played by John Candy. The book is a 306 page story of how a person in the 1900’s spends a million dollar inheritance so that he might receive an inheritance of multiple millions. The twist of families in disagreement with each other spurs this quagmire. The friends play the role of restraint due to the fact that part of the spending required Brewster to share that fact with no one. The other twist in the story is that Brewster must spend this money in a manner in which he will be a pauper, a man with no material wealth except the clothes on his back.
If you like to dream of how you could spend that million so you can inherit more, this is your book to read. If you have friends who do and those who do not stand by you no matter what, this is a book to read to find how loyalty can pay off. If you have a Kindle and want a fun, though time period influenced read then this is a great book since it is free.
This book is recommended.
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