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Barrel Fever by David Sedaris The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers One of a Kind by Nolan Dalla The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Without Fail by Lee Child Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis Endurance by Alfred Lansing A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
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Ronald Wright
“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress
tags: american-dream, misattributed-to-john-steinbeck
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