Ely Culbertson was a great entrepreneur, building publishing and teaching empires in contract bridge, was probably the world's greatest bridge player, was a great showman, was extremely lucky, even given his extreme virtues, to have one of history's great women (and bridge players) as a wife, and was very strange in the way he created his own, internal board of independent governors: Ely the Roue, Ely the Husband, Ely the this and that, each acting autonomously. Silva Mind Control and Napoleon Hill fans will find that Board quite familiar, but both came well after Ely. And Ely wrote a darn good book about it all.