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In college, Klein kindled a love of theater. While enjoying a career acting in university and other productions, he also served for four years as chairman of the
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history because it gave him the most freedom of subject matter in the classroom and fed the broad range of his interests. He spent the year 1966-67 as a
Newcomen Fellow at the Harvard Business School.
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immigrants and spent his life in the women's ready-wear trade. His mother, Alice Lena
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2016: Stealing Games: How John McGraw Transformed Baseball with the 1911 New York Giants.
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1968: "Southern railroad leaders, 1865-1893: identities and ideologies."
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1990: "Replacement technology: the diesel as a case study."
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2001: "The stock market crash of 1929: A review article."
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1990: "Competition and regulation: the railroad model."
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