GOD IN THE PITS: THE ENRON-JIHAD EDITION, by Mark Andrew Ritchie
This book was formerly published before 9/11. But that single event changed everything. Mark Andrew Ritchie has been quoted as saying, "Islamic people are the kindest, most loving, most hospitable people in the world." Then he claims that when he saw the second plane hit the WTC, he knew that Moslems had finally brought jihad to America. Is he credible?
Ritchie thinks America has a blind spot: spiritual engagement. Nineteen hijackers traveled spiritual roads that ended on that fateful September day, but we avoid spiritual discussions about it...too personal.
Mix this with the fact that Mark's father was murdered by Muslims in far away Afghanistan, where the elder Ritchie was constructing a hospital for the treatment of blindness, and you have a story about one man's journey -- from a childhood in Afghanistan to the money pits of America -- that you can't put down.
Reviews of the first edition:
"GOD IN THE PITS is a compelling story of Mark Ritchie's quest for meaning and truth in the Commodity pits and the pits of life. I read about 30 books a year. None has gripped me more.... With his trading experience as a backdrop, he unveils a path to truth about his physical and spiritual world that has real meaning. Must reading for seekers of value, truth, and reality in the biggest sense."
-Merrill J. Oster, Publisher Futures Magazine
"Successful traders are few and far between, and fewer still write autobiographies. But the public clamor for insights into the minds of successful traders has placed books such as Reminiscences of a Stock Operator among the bestsellers of all time.... [this book] deserves to join it.... A dynamic and well written book --a true page-turner."
?Barron's
[GOD IN THE PITS] "does make a case that it is possible to go long on soybeans without compromising one's religious devotion."
-Forbes
"Excellent."
-Donald J. Trump
"One of the five books that should be in the business person's essential library."
-Working Woman
"They are ordinary guys and certified psychos, calculating entrepreneurs and seat-of-the-pants gamblers. They are all found in the pits.... Then along comes Mark Ritchie, and you can add Mother Theresa to the stew. Ritchie is a former pit trader and a founding partner of Chicago Research and Trading, one of the leading commodity options trading firms. Unlike most of his peers, the excess baggage Ritchie took to the pits was a fundamentalist Christian upbringing, and even more unlike other traders, he gives his trading profits away to the poorest people in the world.... The effort is something you can pull for, and Ritchie's story is surely one of the most unexpected to emerge from the trading floor.... It is, however, a true tortuous journey to the promised land."
-Chicago Sun-Times Book Review
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