Revision of thesis (Ph. D.)--University of London, 1936."June 1981." Includes bibliographical references.

Their success, Mihm reveals, is more than an entertaining tale of criminal enterprise: it is the story of the rise of a country defined by freewheeling capitalism and little government control.

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