Suze Orman's face and name are more prominent on the cover of her new money guide than its title, The Road to Wealth. And why not? Orman has parlayed her popular renown as both a New York Times bestselling author and video-age financial guru into an undeniable position of respect and trust when it comes to matters of dollars and sense. This time she presents an encyclopedic guide to the various components of one's overall financial life--from managing debt and owning a home to making investments and preparing to pass it all along--and she does so in the clear and confident style to which her fans have become accustomed. "Here is what you need to know," she writes at the outset. "Answers to the questions you have been asking, as well as the questions you should have been asking, delivered in the most complete, straightforward way I know." While the concise text moves logically from "creating a strong financial foundation to amassing assets and protecting them from common mistakes and periods of economic downturn," this is not meant to be read from cover to cover. Rather, it is a ready bookshelf reference for planning and sorting out common finance concerns, like how to calculate the mortgage payment you can best afford, determine what Medicare will pay toward nursing care, decide between retirement plan options, and similar matters of personal importance. --Howard Rothman

From Library Journal
The queen of money advice tells you how to get out of debt, plan your retirement, buy stocks, and much, much more. Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From AudioFile
One of the best-known personal finance authors gives us six hours of questions and answers on managing money. The program is less about investing than it is about getting the basics under control: eliminating credit card debt, reducing spending, minimizing taxes, and borrowing wisely. Orman is succinct and determined in this audio--like Judge Judy hammering somebody with money problems--and the effect is to make you want to balance your checkbook and get a part-time job to pay off your credit cards. It works and ought to be essential listening for anyone who is serious about life and wants to manage money better. T.W. © AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Book Description
Suze Orman's #1 bestsellers The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom and The Courage to Be Rich changed the way people think about their money, helping them overcome their emotional roadblocks to financial freedom.

Now, Suze delivers a fully accessible and authoritative resource, loaded with information critical to every stage of readers' financial lives. The Road to Wealth provides readers with practical answers to all the questions they might-or should-have about their financial futures. Sound, straightforward, fiercely honest, and easy-to-understand, Suze's advice gives them the knowledge and power to:

€ Create a strong, debt-free foundation
€ Amass assets and protect them through economic downturns
€ Buy a home to provide for loved ones
€ Invest with confidence and navigate the market in good times and bad
€ Secure reliable income for their later lives

Book Info
(Riverhead Books) Provides answers to questions about our financial futures. Discusses how to be debt free, amass assets, buy a home, invest with confidence, and secure reliable income for later years. Softcover. DLC: Finance, Personal.

From the Publisher
Bonus: Suze Orman is giving each purchaser of The Road to Wealth a subscription to her bimonthly online newsletter, which offers regularly updated information on the stock and bond markets; Suze's stock and mutual fund picks; articles and projections from various economic experts; rates on money market funds, CDs, and credit cards; and all kinds of good, sound financial advice. The Road to Wealth and the Suze Orman E-Newsletter together are a truly interactive package and an indispensable reference tool for every financial library.

FROM OUR EDITORS

Suze Orman, one of the most trusted and insightful financial experts working today, wrote The Road to Wealth with a single overarching goal in mind: to empower readers to act in their own best interest by giving them honest and useful knowledge about money matters. Orman's earlier bestsellers, The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom and The Courage to be Rich, taught people to overcome the emotional, psychological, and spiritual obstacles that prevent them from taking proper control of their finances and their lives. Unlike these books, The Road to Wealth is more of an encyclopedia that covers all of life's major financial stages, from debt reduction to marriage, home buying, and retirement. Written in a friendly question-and-answer format and filled with practical information, this book will prove invaluable to anyone who wishes to make the best possible use of their money.

ANNOTATION

The Road to Wealth provides us with the practical answers to the questions we have been asking - or should have been asking: sound, straightforward, fiercely honest, and easy-to-understand advice on the financial topics that most affect our lives.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Suze Orman's #1 bestsellers The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom and The Courage to Be Rich changed the way we think about our money, helping us overcome our emotional roadblocks to financial freedom. Now, Suze delivers a fully accessible and authoritative resource, loaded with information critical to every stage of our financial lives. The Road to Wealth provides us with practical answers to all the questions we might -- or should -- have about our financial futures. Suze Orman urges us to browse through the table of contents and index, then consult the pages that speak directly to our lives right now. In times like these, it's important to know there is a guide we can truly trust.

SYNOPSIS

With her new book, Suze Orman delivers a message that once again is right on time. A book designed to help us take action and overcome the obstacle of confusion, The Road to Wealth provides us with the practical answers to the questions we have been asking - or should have been asking: sound, straightforward, fiercely honest, and easy-to-understand advice on the financial topics that most affect our lives. Here is information that points us in the right direction and erases the uncertainty that can often cost us precious time...and money.

From creating a strong, debt-free foundation to amassing assets and protecting them in periods of economic downturn; from buying a home to providing for loved ones; from investing with confidence and navigating the markets in good times and bad to securing reliable income for our later years, The Road to Wealth offers invaluable insight and information whenever we are in our lives, whatever our needs, whatever the economic climate.

FROM THE CRITICS

Library Journal

The queen of money advice tells you how to get out of debt, plan your retirement, buy stocks, and much, much more. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

AudioFile