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    Emil Lazarian
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A1+: Presentation of book “The Gambler” about Kerk Kerkorian to take place in Gyumri

  • 12:48 | July 30,2018 | Culture
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Presentation of the book “The Gambler” about an American businessman of Armenian origin, billionaire, philanthropists, the executive director of “Trancinda Corporations”, the national hero of Armenia Kerka Kerkorian will be held in Gyumri. The Edith Print publishing house, with the assistance of the Gyumri community administration, will organize the book presentation on August 4, at 1:00 pm, on the territory adjacent to the statue of Kerk Kerkorian. The venue for the presentation was chosen not accidentally: the recently installed monument is a kind of tribute to the great Armenian.

Note that the author of the book, which was published in the United States of America and has already become a bestseller, is William C. Rempel. Translators of the book are Alina and Anna Mirzoyan.

“Kerk Kerkorian was a very closed person, did not give interviews, did not speak to the public. He above all put the protection of his personal life. Kerkorian’s advisers and partners believed that even after his death, it was necessary to remain isolated, but Rempel managed to find exceptions,” the translator of the book Alina Mirzoyan said.

The book “The Gambler: How a poor, semi-educated Kerk Kerkorian became the largest businessman in the capitalist history” was published on January 23, 2018.

The author, Rempel, says: “This is the inspirational story of the ninety-eight-year-old life of Kerk Kerkorian – a guy barefoot running through the fertile and soft land of the San Joaquin Valley in California, until the family financial havost made him a city boy, forced him to find his place on the dirty sidewalks of Los Angeles.

He was a strong guy, crying at a funeral, a modest man, secretly proud of his achievements, a business genius who ignored the consultants of ABC, a brave pilot and film magnate, a gambler in the casino and on Wall Street, who, with a supernatural skill, minimum risks, made his bet on the most incredible outcome.

By the way, this is a documentary book; all quotations and descriptive scenes are based on eyewitness recollections or previously published stories.

Emil Lazarian: “I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS