Meet the largest landowner in America -
Fortune Management
By "something" Malone means land. Given that in 2011 Malone bought 1.2 million acres of Maine woodlands, thereby surpassing his old friend Ted Turner as
the nation's largest private landowner, one might view the Friday
shopping trip as a touch superfluous. Malone doesn't. He's got the land
bug, thanks in part to Turner, now the second-largest private landowner
in America, with whom he has a fond rivalry. If, as the German
philosopher G.W.F. Hegel posited, "property is the first embodiment of
freedom," Malone is one liberated individual. According to The Land Report
magazine, he now owns an estimated 2.2 million acres of U.S. cropland,
ranch land, and woodland, an area about three times the size of Rhode
Island. (The largest landowner in the world is Queen Elizabeth II,
because technically she owns places like Australia and Canada.)
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