Fortune?s Wheel is a lively examination of wealth creation over the past 150 years from the explosive development of the railroad system, through the gold rush to the age of e-commerce and dot.com millionaires. When wealth was first measured by the tangible goods of the industrial era to today when knowledge and the next great idea are highly valued. Fortune?s Wheel follows the ideas and individuals that created fabulous wealth, whether through talent, war, fraud, crime or simple luck. The book contains interesting anedotes, "Startling Stats" and "Landmark Dates".