The Honest Rainmaker
Liebling's portrait of Colonel John R. Stingo, racetrack columnist and confidence man, assembled largely from his own talk.
Colonel John R. Stingo was not a colonel and that was not his name. Liebling met him in a Manhattan hotel bar and let him talk, and the result is a portrait of a racetrack columnist and lifelong operator whose ventures included selling rain to farmers on terms calculated so that the weather could not lose him money.
Recommended by 1 Person
Andrew Gelman
Liebling is one of the great writers of all time and I felt that this particular book had strong statistical content.
Interview · January 2011
As an Amazon Associate, bookstoread.org earns from qualifying purchases. Links to Amazon on this page may earn us a commission at no extra cost to you. Spotted an error on this page? Tell us and we will fix it.