The secret history of Monopoly
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The Real Story of Monopoly
For years, the official story had been that monopoly had been invented in the early thirties by an out of workd salesman from pencil ania called charles darrow. But as ralph anspack later uncovered, that wasn't the whole story, or the true story. Lizzie macge was an early feminist originally from illinois, who, as well as being an inventor, was a writer, reporter and, at one point, an actress. And in 19 o four, she took out a patent for what she called the landlord's game. He had a mission to teach people about the evil of landownership, and how profits landowners made by appreciation of land should
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