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001 2009275973
003 DLC
005 20090311134717.0
008 090305s2006 mauaf b 001 0 eng d
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020 $a0306814897 (hbk.)
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100 1 $aOrbanes, Philip.
245 10 $aMonopoly :$bthe world's most famous game-- and how it got that way /$cPhilip E. Orbanes.
250 $a1st Da Capo Press ed.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bDa Capo Press,$c2006.
300 $axviii, 262 p. [32] p. of plates :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 245-246) and index.
505 0 $aMagie's Mother Earth: 1903-1910 -- Nearing's neighborhood: 1910-1915 -- Parker and progress: 1910-1915 -- Tugwell's turn: 1916-1924 -- Stryker's style: 1925-1932 -- Darrow's depression: 1932-1934 -- Barton's burden: 1935-1940 -- Watson's war: 1936-1945 -- GI Gamers: 1945-1958 -- The general's gamble: 1959-1972 -- Victor's vision: 1972-1985 -- The Reagan rolls: 1979-1991 -- Number nine, number nine: 1992-2002 -- McNally's method: 2003-2004 -- Williamson's world: 2005 and beyond -- Monopoly money.
520 $aPhilip Orbanes, expert on all things Monopoliana, tells the remarkable history of the Monopoly game, from its predecessor's birth as a teaching tool for an economics class in the first decade of the twentieth century, through its introduction in 1935 and explosive growth in the postwar decades--over 200 million copies sold in sixty countries--to it being a fixture in just about every American home today. Orbanes includes personality portraits, little-known legends and lore, and the extraordinary variety of advertising used throughout the twentieth century. This is the first and only book to cover comprehensively the origin, growth, and global impact of the game that has become a cultural icon. This book is not endorsed by Hasbro Games.--From publisher description.
650 0 $aMonopoly (Game)$xHistory.