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The Populist Plutocrat: Thomas W. Lawson and the Plan to Sabotage Wall Street
a Kindle longform essay
A narrative history that tells the story of a very colorful, larger-than-life, phenomenally wealthy character who styled himself as a representative of the people who wanted to bring down the ruling elite. Sound familiar? Lawson launched a ridiculously bold plan to reorganize the distribution of wealth in America that very nearly worked. He was a master at one of the great vanished professions of the twentieth century--stock manipulation--and his failure tells us a great deal about the present day. The Populist Plutocrat is what you would get if you crossed Jon Mooallem's American Hippopotamus with Michael Lewis's The Big Short.

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