The Price of Death

For the better part of the past decade, Paul Sullivan has written about and lived among some of the wealthiest people in America. He has learned how they save, spend, and invest their money; how they work and rest; how they use their wealth to give their children educational advantages but not strip them of motivation. He has also seen how they make horrendous mistakes.

In The Thin Green Line: The Money Secrets of the Super Wealthy, Sullivan explains why some people, even “rich” people, neve...