Finance ✦ Penny’s Take 📱 Kindle
Making Money
Owen Johnson · 1952
52/100
👎 Skip It
A forgotten 1915 Wall Street novel about ambition, rivalry, and the Gilded Age hunger for status — interesting as a period artifact, but it hasn't held up as a book people actually read anymore. Fine for public-domain curiosity, not a title Penny can call a real recommendation.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
📱 Read free on Kindle Unlimited ↗ Buy on Kindle ↗📚 In print ↗🎧 On Audible ↗ affiliate links · support the site, never the verdict
As an Amazon Associate and Audible affiliate, Penny earns from qualifying purchases. This never affects the verdict — see our affiliate disclosure.
Show the math
Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety80
Substance / usefulness45
Craft & writing50
Originality55
Evidence & accuracy50
Hype vs delivers65
Age-fit75
Human-eye read40
Penny’s verdict52
Cross-pollinate