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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It was a time of unregulated madness at the dawn of the Roaring Twenties. Leo Koretz, a lawyer from Chicago, enticed hundreds of people to invest as much as $30 million in phantom timberland and nonexistent oil wells in Panama. Leo vanished when his scheme finally collapsed in 1923.