Mine's Bigger

“The man, his ego and his boat are examined with insight and precision.” - Forbes

“An exhilarating account of how Tom Perkins, the man most responsible for bankrolling Silicon Valley, created ‘the perfect yacht’-the biggest, fastest, riskiest, highest-tech, and most self indulgent sailboat ever: the Maltese Falcon.” - American Heritage

“An exhilarating account of how Tom Perkins…created ‘the perfect yacht’…the Maltese Falcon.” - American Heritage

“Engaging and revealing… If it’s your idea of fun is to admire the fabulously wealthy, brilliant, and charismatic person you will never be, you’ll want to read Mine’s Bigger: Tom Perkins and the Making of the Greatest Sailing Machine Ever Built. But if holding up the ludicrously self-involved for public examination makes you whimper with delight, you’ll like it just as much… Billed as the tale of his quest to build a mega-yacht to outdo all other mega-yachts, Mine’s Bigger is really a biography of this fascinating, important, and frequently repellent man, brought so vividly to life by the adept Kaplan that you almost feel you’re in the room with him.” - –Daniel Okrent, Fortune

“Engaging and revealing…brought vividly to life by the adept Kaplan….” - –Daniel Okrent, Fortune

“Having started sailboat racing myself in the summer of 1946, I understand the fervor that goes into it, so I opened Mr. Kaplan’s book with a great deal of interest; I was not disappointed. …Tom Perkins might tell you that investing money in start-up companies is fun and–sometimes–profitable. But sailing has been what has truly obsessed him, and he seems to have succeeded in building the boat of his–and plenty of other sailors’–dreams.” - Pete Du Pont, former governor of Delaware, The Wall Street Journal

“I opened Mr. Kaplan’s book with a great deal of interest; I was not disappointed.” - Pete Du Pont, former governor of Delaware, The Wall Street Journal

”…definitely worth the read.” - USA Today

“Perkins’ two worlds–high-stakes, big-ego, cutting-edge sailing technology, and high-stakes, big-ego corporate politics–are inextricably linked in MINE’S BIGGER.” - New York Post

“Inspired.” - Denver Rocky Mountain News

David A. Kaplan is a senior editor at Newsweek, responsible for the magazine’s Enterprise section. He also is the managing editor of the annual Newsweek-Kaplan College Guide. He previously was a writer for the magazine, with 15 cover stories on topics ranging from the Supreme Court to baseball to moviemaking to national politics.