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Sacred Hunger
by lz in Reading Archive on 16Sep2008
The life of a slave ship, from construction through abandonment on the Florida coast, underpins the story set in the 1700s. William Kemp builds the ship, then ends up hanging himself under the pressure of mounting debts. His son, Erasmus Kemp, jettisons his attempt at marriage with a local merchant's...
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Not even close to as thrilling and engaging as The Informant (the ADM price fixing scheme), this book is touted as the granddaddy of all business books, giving an inside look into the leveraged buyout (LBO) of RJR Nabisco in 1988. Ross Johnson is portrayed as the smarmy, greedy CEO...
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Bosnian writer Brik lives in Chicago and is being kept by his brain-surgeon wife, Mary. He chafes under his inability to earn a living, and somehow secures a grant to write about Lazarus, a Russian Jew killed in the early 1900s by the Chicago Chief of Police after Lazarus went...
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