The Monopolists

The Monopolists reveals the unknown story of how Monopoly came into existence, the reinvention of its history by Parker Brothers and multiple media outlets, the lost female originator of the game, and one man s lifelong obsession to tell the true story about the game s questionable origins.Most think it was invented by an unemployed Pennsylvanian who sold his game to Parker Brothers during the Great Depression in 1935 and lived happily and richly ever after That story, however, is not exactly true Ralph Anspach, a professor fighting to sell his Anti Monopoly board game decades later, unearthed the real story, which traces back to Abraham Lincoln, the Quakers, and a forgotten feminist named Lizzie Magie who invented her nearly identical Landlord s Game than thirty years before Parker Brothers sold their version of Monopoly Her game underpinned by morals that were the exact opposite of what Monopoly represents today was embraced by a constellation of left wingers from the Progressive Era through the Great Depression, including members of Franklin Roosevelt s famed Brain Trust.A fascinating social history of corporate greed that illuminates the cutthroat nature of American business over the last century, The Monopolists reads like the best detective fiction, told through Monopoly s real life winners and losers. New Read The Monopolists author Mary Pilon For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I absolutely loved this book, and I suspect if you ve ever played Monopoly, you will too This is a really wonderfully told account of the origins of Monopoly, the economic and political beliefs behind its creation, and how it spread without leaving a trace of the woman who came up with the idea and the board There is so much fascinating stuff in the book, including about how a Anti Monopoly gam...Such a fascinating fun book If you ve ever played Monopoly and or you re a card carrying member of the Curious Minds Want to Know the Most Random Things club, this book is for you Mary Pilon conveys the real story behind the Parker Brothers Charles Darrow story with all the hoopla and shenanigans surrounding America s favorite pop culture game Commonly held beliefs don t always stand up to scrutiny, but perhaps the real question is why we cling to them in the first place, failing to Such a fasc...This is it in a nutshell The Monopolists was as much fun to read as the game is to play Although politics and the law frequently play into the story, Mary Pilon did an exceptional job of keeping my attention and interest high my mind did not wander, I did not get bored even once The language remains in English and the focus is on the people, their thoughts, feelings, ideas, lives The story involves Elizabeth Magie Phillips, the woman who invented The Landlord s Game the various co This is it in a nutshell The Monopolists was as much fun to read as the game is to play Although politics and the law frequently play into the story, Mary Pilon did an exceptional job of keeping my attention and interest high my mind did not wander, I did not get bored even once The language remains in English and the focus is on the people, their thoughts, feelings, ideas, lives The story involves Elizabeth Magie Phillips, the woman who invented The Landlord s Game the various college students, Quakers from Atlantic City and their friends who played monopoly before Parker Brothers bought it and contributed to its art and evolution Charles Darrow a somewhat sympathetic thief who steals the monopoly game idea from a friend when he is unemployed during the Depression leaders and their children at Parker Brothers and what tragedies...I love board games nearly as much as I love stories, so when I saw Mary Pilon s book on the sordid origins of Monopoly, I immediately wanted in on the scandal Thank you to Bloomsbury USA for an advanced copy of The Monopolists in exchange for an honest review.PLOT In The Monopolists, Mary Pilon investigates the origins of arguably, America s most popu...While the true story of Monopoly s origins, and the way in which some of the early players helped the games popularity spread was fascinating, The disjointed nonlinear nature of Pilon s narrative really made this book hard to get into The fact that the narrator soun...This was a good read.After I read and loved two memoirs, a friend of mine thought I should continue on the nonfiction wave I was riding and dive into The Monopolists.Me You mean a book about a board game side eye My entirely too patient with me friend It s about the true history of the game It s really interesting Me Uh ok My friend introduced me to Candace Millard so she had built up some reading cred with me She is officially two for two This book tells the true story of how w This was a good read.After I read and loved two memoirs, a friend of mine thought I should continue on the nonfiction wave I was riding and dive into The Monopolists.Me You mean a book about a board game side ey...Interesting story of how Monopoly was really created Part economics lesson, part history lesson, and part legal thriller Took awhile for me to get into it, but once I did I was glad I stuck with itFrom the time it hit stores in the 1930 s, Parker Brothers sold Monopoly with the encouraging backstory of being invented by a Pennsylvania father struggling through the Great Depression However, many Americans who had played versions of the game before knew the story wasn t exactly true Mary Pilon s upcoming book follows a professor in the 1970 s as he digs back through Monopoly s past in an effort to sell his own game and set history straight.At the start of The Monopolists it s not clear ho From the time it hit stores in the 1930 s, Parker Brothers sold Monopoly with the encouraging backstory of being invented by a Pennsylvania father struggling through the Great Depression However, many Americans who had played versions of the game before knew the story wasn t exactly true Mary Pilon s upcoming book follows a...Let s say you want to hear a true history full of intrigue and deception as well told as any spy novel, but where the stakes are mere ideas That you d never want to read through tomes of patent law, but you don t mind a bit of legalese on occasion.Let s say that well written and engaging histories are your thing Read this book As with all true stories there s a bit of fuzziness around the edges of every fact Eye witnesses remembering incompletely, one side determined to obscure the facts, a Let s say you want to hear a true history full of intrigue and deception as well told as any spy novel, but where the stakes are mere ideas That you d never want to read through tomes of patent law, but you don t mind a bit of legalese on occasion.Let s say that well written and engaging histories are your thing Read this book As with all true stories ...

• 13 December 2018
Mary Pilon
• Hardcover
• 320 pages
• 1608199630
• Mary Pilon
• The Monopolists