MR Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World's Richest Man by Jonathan Conlin

MR Five Per Cent: The Many Lives of Calouste Gulbenkian, the World's Richest Man

Jonathan Conlin

448 pages • first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction biography business history informative medium-paced
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When Calouste Gulbenkian died in 1955 at the age of 86, he was the richest man in the world, known as 'Mr Five Per Cent' for his personal share of Middle East oil. The son of a wealthy Armenian merchant in Istanbul, for half a century he brokered ...

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