TUCCILLE, Jerome 1937-

PERSONAL: Surname pronounced "too-chilly"; born May 30, 1937, in New York, NY; son of Salvatore J. (a taxi owner) and Virginia (Marano) Tuccille; married Marie Winkler, January 23, 1965; children: Jerome, Christine. Education: Manhattan College, B.S., 1959. Politics: "Anarchist-Libertarian." Hobbies and other interests: Travel (Australia, Europe), tennis, squash, and skiing.

ADDRESSES: Home—MD. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Beard Books, Inc., 306 N. Market St., Frederick, MD 12701-5337; fax: 240-629-3360.

CAREER: Investment broker, 1975–; New York School for Social Research, New York, NY, teacher, 1971–73; Merrill Lynch, New York, NY, staff member, 1974–79; Shearson American Express, staff member, 1979–82; Gruntal & Co., New York, NY, vice president of investments, 1982–88; Thomas F. White & Co., Stamford, CT, staff member, 1988; T. Rowe Price Investment Services, currently vice president. Libertarian candidate for New York governor, 1974. Military service: U.S. Marine Corps, 1957–63; became sergeant.

MEMBER: Authors Guild, Authors League of America, PEN American Center.

WRITINGS:

Radical Libertarianism: A Right Wing Alternative, Bobbs-Merrill (Indianapolis, IN), 1970.

It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand: A Libertarian Odyssey (memoir), Stein & Day (New York, NY), 1971.

Here Comes Immortality, Stein & Day (New York, NY), 1973.

Who's Afraid of 1984?, Arlington House (New Rochelle, NY), 1975.

Everything the Beginner Needs to Invest Wisely, Arlington House (New Rochelle, NY), 1978, reprinted, Beard Books (Washington, DC), 2003.

The Optimist's Guide to Making Money in the 1980's: A Complete Program for Investing in the American Economic Miracle of the Next Decade, Morrow (New York, NY), 1978.

Dynamic Investing: The System for Automatic Profits, No Matter Which Way the Market Goes, New American Library (New York, NY), 1981, revised edition published as Dynamic Investing, New American Library (New York, NY), 1982.

Inside the Underground Economy, New American Library (New York, NY), 1982.

How to Profit from the Wall Street Mergers: Riding the Takeover Wave, New American Library (New York, NY), 1983, reprinted, Beard Books (Washington, DC), 2003.

Kingdom: The Story of the Hunt Family of Texas, Jameson Books (Ottawa, IL), 1984, reprinted, Beard Books (Washington, DC), 2003.

Wall Street Blues, L. Stuart (Secaucus, NJ), 1988.

Trump: The Saga of America's Most Powerful Real Estate Baron, D.I. Fine (New York, NY), 1985.

Rupert Murdoch, D.I. Fine (New York, NY), 1989, published as Rupert Murdoch: Creator of a Worldwide Media Empire, Beard Books (Washington, DC), 2003.

(With Philip Sayetta Jacobs) The Mission: A Novel about the Flight of Rudolf Hess, D.I. Fine (New York, NY), 1991.

(With F. Clifton White) Politics as a Noble Calling: The Memoirs of F. Clifton White, Jameson Books (Ottawa, IL), 1994.

Barry Diller: The Life and Times of a Media Mogul, Carol Group (Secaucus, NJ), 1998.

Dominick's Van Gogh, Pulpless (Mill Valley, CA), 1999.

It Still Begins with Ayn Rand: Part Two of a Libertarian Odyssey (memoir), Pulpless (Mill Valley, CA), 1999.

Alan Shrugged: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan, the World's Most Powerful Banker, Wiley (Hoboken, NJ), 2002.

Also author of The New Tax Law and You, New American Library. Contributor of articles to newspapers and periodicals, including the New York Times, Libertarian Forum, Nation, and National Review.

SIDELIGHTS: A long-time broker who has worked on Wall Street, Jerome Tuccille is also a prolific author of biographies, economic thought, and even fiction. In his biography of Donald Trump, Trump: The Saga of America's Most Powerful Real Estate Baron, Tuccille provides an unauthorized biography focusing on Trump's career. "For those curious about the inside machinations of this peculiar, sometimes glamorous world, this book is ideal," according to Mary Vespa in People. Another biography, Rupert Murdoch, focuses on the media baron, who was described by National Review contributor Brad Miner as "almost surely the most successful media tycoon in history." In his biography of the former Chairman of the Federal Reserve titled Alan Shrugged: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan, the World's Most Powerful Banker, the author delves into Greenspan's personal life as well as his career. "This is the first biography to treat his whole life and to portray his evolution from shy, gawky musical protégé to becoming one of the most powerful people in the world," wrote a contributor to MS Presswire. Lawrence R. Maxted commented in the Library Journal, "Perhaps the most interesting details presented here are Greenspan's early involvement with Ayn Rand, his libertarian views on a limited government, and the flexibility he has maintained in his economic thought."

Tuccille, a Libertarian who once ran for the office of New York governor, has talked about how he formed his political beliefs in his two memoirs. The first of these, It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand: A Libertarian Odyssey, begins in the late 1950s, when Tuccille was a member of the circle surrounding the writer and political philosopher Rand, who was well known for her novel Atlas Shrugged. The tale ends in 1971, when a group of libertarians failed to unite with the New Left to form an anti-government coalition. Writing in the American Enterprise, Martin Morse Wooster noted, "There are two reasons why Tuccille's account remains fresh and valuable. First, he is an excellent stylist, who has superb control of the techniques of the New Journalism period." Wooster added: "Second, Tucille knows that political debates are often comic, and he has a great deal of fun lampooning the nuts and flakes who enjoy screaming at political meetings." Tuccille continued his memoirs with It Still Begins with Ayn Rand: Part Two of a Libertarian Odyssey.

In addition to his many nonfiction works, Tuccille also collaborated with Philip Sayetta Jacobs to write The Mission: A Novel about the Flight of Rudolf Hess. The book provides a fictional account of a notorious reallife incident during World War II in which Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolph Hess unexpectedly turned up in Scotland in 1941. Hess was eventually imprisoned for war crimes.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

Tuccille, Jerome, It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand: A Libertarian Odyssey, Stein & Day (New York, NY), 1971.

Tuccille, Jerome, It Still Begins with Ayn Rand: Part Two of a Libertarian Odyssey, Pulpless (Mill Valley, CA), 1999.

PERIODICALS

American Enterprise, November-December, 1998, Martin Morse Wooster, review of It Usually Begins with Ayn Rand: A Libertarian Odyssey, p. 84.

Library Journal, November 1, 2002, Lawrence R. Maxted, review of Alan Shrugged: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan, the World's Most Powerful Banker, p. 100.

MS Presswire, October 7, 2002, review of Alan Shrugged.

Nation, November 16, 1970, review of Radical Libertarianism, p. 501.

National Review, October 6, 1970, review of Radical Libertarianism: A Right Wing Alternative, p. 1065; January 22, 1990, Brad Miner, review of Rupert Murdoch, p. 52.

People, August 26, 1985, Mary Vespa, review of Trump: The Saga of America's Most Powerful Real Estate Baron, p. 22.

Publishers Weekly, December 14, 1990, Sybil Steinberg, review of The Mission: A Novel about the Flight of Rudolf Hess, p. 55.