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Many people are confused about recent events, but house of cards is a wonderful place to start to learn. From the bestselling, prizewinning author of the last tycoons and house of cards, a revelatory history of goldman sachs, the most dominant, feared, and controversial investment bank in the world. The duke lacrosse scandal, the power of the elite, and the corruption of our great universities is a nonfiction book about the duke lacrosse case by william d. Cohan is a graduate of duke university, columbia university school of journalism, and columbia university graduate school of business.
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