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August 22, 2008

Founding Fathers as First Real Estate Developers

Interesting NPR segment this morning on Morning Edition where author Witold "Last Harvest" Rybczynski made the following claim:

Virtually all the [U.S.] founding fathers were real estate developers.

Well, at least we know who to (in absentia) congratulate/blame.

[via NPR]

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