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If your finances are no more orderly than your 14-year-old's bedroom, a good book can help clean up the mess. A personal-finance book may also be the best option for long-term planning, especially if you don't have bags of money to spend.
Fee-only financial planners, the kind most likely to provide unbiased advice, can charge $2,000 and up for a comprehensive plan. A book won't set you back more than $30 or so.
We live in an age of celebrity and big brand names. To sell books, publishers are using both. Their hope: that readers will attach themselves to "personalities," financial gurus they will follow as closely as they follow J. Lo and Ben Affleck or ...