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Book Review: Monopoly: The World's Most Famous Game And How It Got That Way: How Monopoly passed Go
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Monopoly: The World's Most Famous Game And How It Got That Way
Philip E Orbanes
Da Capo Press, GBP 15.99
OVER the last few years there has been a veritable torrent of non-
fiction books that tell us the story behind things you would never
suspect had a history. We've had cod, ice-cubes, longitude, salt,
honey, caviare, denim and cutlery as portals that unfurl into
microcosms of changing attitudes, political priorities and
vacillating fashions. The back dust-jacket of th...
