It Was All for the Love of a Horse

In this memoir Mario Belotti recounts his journey starting as the son of a poor sharecropper growing up in a large family in a farmhouse without water or electricity in an Italian town that could offer only a third-grade education. Thanks to a twist of fate with a horse named Nino his family escaped the sharecropper trap and moved to towns where he could continue his education. With luck determination and help he was able to complete elementary and secondary education obtain a visa to the U.S. complete a bachelors degree in business a masters degree in accounting and a Ph.D. in economics. Along the way he worked as a quasi-cowboy kitchen helper pizza maker and restaurant chef among other jobs. After finishing his Ph.D. he became a university professor U.S. citizen economic consultant speaker and investor. This memoir also recounts how Mario met his future wife Rose on the boat from Italy to the U.S. their marriage a few years later and life together for fifty-seven years since with three children and seven grandchildren.