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11. The Mom Who Stole the Blueprints for the Atomic Bomb

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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URSULA KACINNSKY - A Young, Idealistic Person

Ursula kacinski came from an upper middle class, fairly wealthy, jewish family. Her father was a demographer and she grew up surrounded by distinguished people. She would remember her tnage years in the vimar republic through a series of politically tinted images. As the world went mad, war debts, reparations and financial mismanagement, cash was barely worth the paper it was printed on. Some people starved, while others went on lunatic spending sprees since there was no point keeping money that would soon be valueless. For ursula was ambitious and confident she would transform society in more radical ways than her father. These twin ambitions would not always sit comfortably

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