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Book Description
The amazing story of how America's best-selling game helped shape our aspirations and captivated the world
Over 200,000,000 copies of the Monopoly(r) 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 postwar 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.
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- Hardcover 288 Pages
- Edition: 1st Da Capo Press Ed
- ISBN-10: 0306814897
- ISBN-13: 9780306814891
- Publisher: Da Capo Press
- Pub date: Nov 30, 2006
- Dimensions: 23 cm x 15 cm x 3 cm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback

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