A Son of Croesus

The sons of Croesus, however, spent the ruler’s legacy with abandon.
—Herodotus, Histories, Book I, Chapter 217.

Not even those who knew Vincent Clementine from boyhood could answer the question, “How could it happen?” How, at age fifty-three, was he still living with his parents at home, up to his ears (and then some) in debt? It was an insidious and widespread issue within

A Son of Croesus