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Book Review

The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse

By Jane Kamensky

Viking, 442 pp., illustrated, $29.95

When Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino unveiled his proposal for a 1,000-foot skyscraper in the Financial District going on two years ago, he called his vision one that would "symbolize the full scope of this city's greatness."

If it does get built, it would overtop the site of an earlier embodiment of the city's aspirations, the Exchange Coffee House.

When that was built, in 1809, writes historian Jane Kamensky, it was "one of the tallest, ...

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