Rags to Retirement

Wondering where youre going to get the $1,000,000 experts say youneed to retire? Join the crowd.Meet 12 ordinary people who found ways to meet their retirement goals, withoutsizable nest eggs. Authors Alan Lavine and Gail Liberman describe the journeys thesepeople took to achieve their dreams and the setbacks they experienced along the way.Yes, you can retire. Learn how others did it, and how they are living the good life onless.-Evan Simonoff , editor in chief, Financial AdvisorReal world! Real people! A must read. You can learn how people like yourself madethe most of their retirement savings.-James A. Barry Jr., CFP chairman of the BarryFinancial Group and host of Jim Barrys Financial Successon PBSIll tell you whats so good about Rags to Retirement, what distinguishes it from thelong catalogue of damnably boring fi nance books out there. Ill tell you why it matters. Simple really. Its about story, not accounting. Its about people, not money!People like you and me. Were not rich, never will be. We should have taken Economics101, but we took Latin or geography, and now were facing our golden years withtrepidation and empty pockets. Well, take heart, folks. We dont need a million inthe bank, but we do need to live creatively. Thats the lesson in these refreshing andmoving stories of people whove led hardscrabble lives and have somehow managed tosettle with dignity and independence into their golden years. And we can do it, too!Rags to Retirement: such stuff as dreams are made on.-John Dufresne, author of Deepin the Shade of ParadiseHusband and wife team Alan Lavine and Gail Liberman are the authors of Ragsto Riches, which made two best-seller lists and was featured on Oprah and CBS?s TheEarly Show. They are syndicated fi nancial journalists whose columns appear in theBoston Herald, Palm Beach Daily News, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Scripps Howardnewspapers. Their work has been featured or quoted in The Wall Street Journal, TheNew York Times, Money, Redbook, and Bloomberg.They are also the authors of The Complete Idiot?s Guide to Making Money with MutualFunds, Third Edition.