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    <body><![CDATA[This is a wonderfully written book that gets deep into much interesting history of &quot;the Street&quot; and it's place in U.S. culture. I loved the hideous details about Henry Ford's awful anti-Semitism and Ford's linking of Bolshevism to Jewish bankers, what a nutcase.  <br/><br/>The only reaso...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48321198">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I enjoyed the author’s perspective especially the way the book is broken down into the Aristocrat, Confidence Man, etc….  Although many of his stories were not knew to me I still found it enjoyable. The book will definitely shed light on today’s recent “economic downturn.”   The stories un...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34752552">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[more rambling thoughts than historical narrative. worth a skim for interesting tidbits, but otherwise the description had more potential than the book actually realized.]]></body>
    
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