He found himself writing sprawling, detail-rich songs that romanticize the end of adolescence.

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Director Rich Moore and the writing team prove to be experts at both pacing and foreshadowing.

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Andrew Carnegie wrote prolifically about wealth and what to do with it, famously writing that the "man who dies...rich, dies disgraced".

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After divorcing his second wife, the romance writer Danielle Steel, in 1999, he began writing himself, and embarked on a novel about the amorous exploits of a rich financier much like him.

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Although Mr Kneese was by nature a warmly friendly man there is in much of his writing a sense of anxiety about the future, and of the growing gap between the rich and the poor.

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