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THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS GAME AND HOW IT GOT THAT WAY - Hardcover Book
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by Author:
Philip E. Orbanes
Over
200,000,000 copies of the Monopoly game have been sold worldwide since
Parker Brothers first popularized it in 1935, making it the world's most
popular proprietary game. Countless special and national editions of the
game are now published in over sixty countries. But while Monopoly has
global appeal, it is distinctly American--a symbol of America's system of
economic "opportunity." In Monopoly: America's Game, Philip Orbanes, the
leading expert on all things Monopoliana, tells the remarkable history of
the game, from its predecessor's birth as a teaching tool for an economics
class in the first decade of the twentieth century through its explosive
growth in the post-war decades to it being a ubiquitous fixture in just
about every American home today. Orbanes includes fascinating Monopoly
personality portraits, little-known Monopoly 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. (262
pages)
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