Rags to Retirement

Wondering where youre going to get the $1,000,000 experts

say you
need to retire? Join the crowd.

Meet 12 ordinary people who found ways to meet their

retirement goals, without
sizable nest eggs. Authors Alan Lavine and Gail Liberman describe

the journeys these
people 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 on
less.-Evan Simonoff , editor in chief, Financial

Advisor


Real world! Real people! A must read. You can learn how

people like yourself made
the most of their retirement savings.-James A. Barry Jr., CFP

chairman of the Barry
Financial Group and host of Jim Barrys Financial

Successon PBS


Ill tell you whats so good about Rags to Retirement,

what distinguishes it from the
long 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 Economics
101, but we took Latin or geography, and now were facing our

golden years with
trepidation and empty pockets. Well, take heart, folks. We

dont need a million in
the bank, but we do need to live creatively. Thats the lesson in

these refreshing and
moving stories of people whove led hardscrabble lives and have

somehow managed to
settle 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 Deep
in the Shade of Paradise



Husband and wife team Alan Lavine and Gail

Liberman are the authors of Rags
to Riches, which made two best-seller lists and was

featured on Oprah and CBS?s The
Early Show. They are syndicated fi nancial journalists whose

columns appear in the
Boston Herald, Palm Beach Daily News, Pittsburgh

Post-Gazette, and Scripps Howard
newspapers. Their work has been featured or quoted in The

Wall Street Journal, The
New York Times, Money, Redbook, and

Bloomberg.


They are also the authors of The Complete Idiot?s Guide to

Making Money with Mutual
Funds, Third Edition.