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Title: My review of Ponzi's Scheme
Review: This book is about the man whose con-game in the summer/fall of 1920 eventually entered into the English language. The book is basicaly a biography of Ponzi, with the majority of it focused on Ponzi's racketand eventual exposure.But there is much that this book does not even bother to look at.For example Ponzi is exposed as a con man in the fall of 1920, yetthere is no attempt on the part of the author to place the Boston Post's concerns about Ponzi in the context of the prevailing social darwinism of the time.Namely a belief that immigrants such as Ponzi could only succeed if they were crooks.The book does not explore what caused Barron to come out against Ponzi after having defended him.Nor is there any attempt to explore Ponzi' s political views, if any as Ponzi did have a patronage position in Mussolini's regime.What saves this book from being a 1 star book, in my view is that it is such an enteraining read.
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