The monopolists : obsession, fury, and the scandal behind the world's favorite board game /
"With its origins rooted in one of the Wall Street Journal's most emailed stories, The Monopolists is the inside story of how the game of Monopoly came into existence, the heavy embellishment of its provenance by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the...
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New York :
Bloomsbury,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- The professor and the trust-busting game
- A woman invents
- A utopia called Arden
- George Parker and the cardboard empire
- New life for the landlord's game
- Frat boys and Quakers change the game
- Charles Darrow's secret
- Parker Brothers, from Depression to boom
- Conflict, intrigue, revenge
- The case for anti-monopoly
- Anspach connects the dots
- Barton under oath
- A matter of principle
- The burial
- Redemption
- What became of them
