★ Paying Tribute to Thomas Stanley and His ‘Millionaire Next Door’

"I doubt I’m only one who returned to my well-worn copy to brush up this week, after the sad news of the death of one of the authors, Thomas J. Stanley, in a car accident. The book, which has sold more than three million copies since its publication in 1996, made its co-author, William D. Danko, a millionaire himself and helped Mr. Stanley achieve similar security and leave academia for research and writing... [T]he book was never meant to be a money bible."