Author, journalist and historian Sinclair (The Pound: A Biography, etc.) turns in this enthralling history to the outrageous and tragic story of Poyais, a South American nation that, as the subtitle ...
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"First published in 2003 as Sir Gregor MacGregor and the land that never was"--T.p. verso. siris_sil_748897 ...
The specifics change, but the essentials of popular manias remain, depressingly, the same. As the past decade's dot-com madness and corporate bookkeeping scandals illustrate, one of the most ...