Overview: Editorial Review

The funniest biography ever written! No this is NOT an overstatement! The autobiography of Colonel Anthony Drexel Biddle; collector of pugs, ex-cons, reformed drunks, alligators (yes he actually kept live monsters in his urban brownstone); who maintained his own personal boxing ring, bought one of the first horseless carriages, smoked to cure his asthma; and rushed through life on a full head of steam. As a singer he gave one of the worst performances of Pugliacci in memory, but if you saw it you'd never forget it. He practised bayonet fighting and judo long before anyone knew what judo was. The Colonel had life by the tail and trying to stop him would have been like halting Hailey's comet in its course! Anthony Drexel Biddle is proof that money and happiness can be successfully combined.