{"product_id":"this-is-the-year-i-john-schwartz-9780399576812","title":"This Is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e correspondent shares his financial successes and mishaps, offering an everyman's guide to straightening out your money once and for all.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoney management is one of our most practical survival skills--and also one we've convinced ourselves we're either born with or not. In reality, financial planning can be learned, like anything else. Part financial memoir and part research-based guide to attaining lifelong security, \u003ci\u003eThis Is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order\u003c\/i\u003e is the book that everyone who has never wanted to read a preachy financial guide has been waiting for. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Schwartz and his wife, Jeanne, are pre-retirement workers of an economic class well above the poverty line, but well below the one percent. Sharing his own alternately harrowing and hilarious stories--from his brush with financial ruin and bankruptcy in his thirties to his short-lived budgeted diet of cafeteria french fries and gravy--John will walk you through his own journey to financial literacy, which he admittedly started a bit late. He covers everything from investments to retirement and insurance to wills (at fifty-eight, he didn't have one ), medical directives and more. Whether you're a college grad wanting to start out on the right foot or you're approaching retirement age and still wondering what a 401(K) is, \u003ci\u003eThis Is the Year I Put My Financial Life in Order\u003c\/i\u003e will help you become your own best financial adviser.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Schwartz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0399576819\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780399576812\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Avery Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/03\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.80w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/19\/2018","brand":"John Schwartz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43919688696063,"sku":"9780399576812","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_fcfb503a-021d-4c4f-abcb-88b6b8ff9981.jpg?v=1680810767","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/this-is-the-year-i-john-schwartz-9780399576812","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}