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The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
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Mafia Prince: Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez • One Hundred Years of Solitude
Tessio had a better opinion of Michael. He sensed something else in the young man: a force cleverly kept hidden, a man jealously guarding his true strength from public gaze, following the Don’s precept that a friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults.
Mario Puzo, Robert Thompson, • The Godfather
A lo largo de sus viajes, Zemurray había descubierto el banano en las selvas de Centroamérica y, con una intuición feliz del provecho comercial que podía sacar de aquella fruta, comenzó a llevarla en lanchas a Nueva Orleans y otras ciudades norteamericanas. Desde el principio tuvo mucha aceptación. Tanta que la creciente demanda lo llevó a
... See moreMario Vargas Llosa • Tiempos recios (Spanish Edition)
But Robert Moses didn’t have to worry about enemies as long as his friend stuck by him. And his friend stuck. Smith’s unprecedented popularity—proven by the ease with which he defeated Mills, a popular Republican running in a heavily Republican state—had given him unprecedented power in the state. And he let the Senate know that he would, if
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