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The Art of the Squeal: Five Rules for Winning at Everything, Including the Things You Were Never Supposed to Win
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ISBN13: 9798187808557
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 18 2026
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 18 2026
Pages: 268
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The #1 non-bestseller in a category that did not exist until his lawyers invented it. The Art of the Squeal is the memoir Baron Buster Bigly wanted to be a monument. It is, instead, an accident - an honest book about a man who has spent his entire career trying to have consumer protections declared a hoax. Baron is a self-made real-estate developer, assuming you define self-made as made by other people whose names he no longer remembers. He does not lose. He reframes. When the world declines to hand him what he wants, he does not adapt, apologize, or improve. He gets louder, and then he gets a wall of taxidermied animals named after the virtues he lacks - Respect, Modesty, Transparency, Loyalty, Authenticity - and he stares at them while he wins. Ghostwritten by a broke graduate of a program that does not lead to money, this is the story of Baron's five rules for winning at absolutely everything: Rule One: If you want it, it's yours.
Rule Two: I know you are, but what am I.
Rule Three: Liar liar, pants on fire.
Rule Four: If you're losing, change the question.
Rule Five: If the world won't sell, call it ungrateful. You will recognize him. That is the problem. He is your boss, your landlord, the founder on the panel, the man at the dinner party explaining cryptocurrency to a woman who did not ask. He is magnificent from a distance and unbearable up close, and this book is an attempt to walk you all the way up to him with the lights on. What this book will not do: make you rich, give you a system you can apply on Monday, or teach anyone in it a single lesson. Nobody grows. That is the point. What it will do: make you laugh at things you probably shouldn't, and then feel briefly, uncomfortably seen. For readers of deadpan satire, corporate absurdity, and comic memoir - the funniest book ever written about a terrible man by someone he refused to pay on time. Read this part. He didn't.
Rule Three: Liar liar, pants on fire.
Rule Four: If you're losing, change the question.
Rule Five: If the world won't sell, call it ungrateful. You will recognize him. That is the problem. He is your boss, your landlord, the founder on the panel, the man at the dinner party explaining cryptocurrency to a woman who did not ask. He is magnificent from a distance and unbearable up close, and this book is an attempt to walk you all the way up to him with the lights on. What this book will not do: make you rich, give you a system you can apply on Monday, or teach anyone in it a single lesson. Nobody grows. That is the point. What it will do: make you laugh at things you probably shouldn't, and then feel briefly, uncomfortably seen. For readers of deadpan satire, corporate absurdity, and comic memoir - the funniest book ever written about a terrible man by someone he refused to pay on time. Read this part. He didn't.
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