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First-person account by the youngest of five children born to a prosperous Kansas wheat farmer during the Roaring Twenties and the Great Dekpression, of a family's struggle to preserve their relationships and maintain the farm after the father became seriously crippled when the author was just a child.

Frank Hearn, a down-on-his-luck bootlegger, hunts down a double-crossing government thief who stole a shipment of top-quality booze, but when he discovers the thief has a $7,000 IOU from Babe Ruth, Frank develops a plan to take the money and make a better life for himself.

Recounts the true story of Charles Ponzi's 1920 scam in which he made millions of dollars through bogus investments and false promises.