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The Monopolists: Obsession, Fury, and the Scandal Behind the World's Favorite Board Game

Mary Pilon, Bloomsbury, 2015

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Pilon's investigative history of Monopoly and its true origin in Lizzie Magie's 1904 Landlord's Game. R. C. Bell's speculative note that Zohn Ahl may have been an inspiration places the Kiowa game in an unexpected modern genealogy.

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The Academy · May 27, 2026

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