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Reviewed on February 1, 2015 | Social Sciences
Board games connote innocent entertainment, but journalist Pilon's social history of Monopoly reveals a less-benign chronicle of power, deception, and avarice, and a tale of small vs. mighty, in which the righteous do not always prevail. Separated by 70 years, its two protagonists each invented a game as a vehicle to broadcast economic beliefs, and both found themselves at odds with the powerful game company Parker Brothers. Monopoly's invention was long ascribed to one Charles Darrow, but its direct antecedent was t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More