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Article: Bernard Baruch: the adventures of a Wall Street legend.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- September 7, 1984
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According to Jim Grant, Dorothy Parker once said that two things confused her: the theory of the zipper and the exact function of Bernard Baruch. This last confusion is not merely widespread; it is militant. The business of America may be business, but it is not its favorite leisure reading or topic of dinner-table conversation. Financial journalists learn early to accept that their field is not only harder to figure out and more difficult to write about than politics or culture; it is also inherently repellent to their media peers. Like all journalism, it beats working for a living, but not with the same fanfare.
one consequence of this schism in American ...
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