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The book submitted that capitalism was and should be on its death knell, but it warned of the grave dangers of a world devoid of its positive legacy.
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in 1930. The exposés propelled Dennis into a national public intellectual career, publishing his first book at the height of the depression in 1932,
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banking trust, but he again made enemies when he wrote a series of exposés of their foreign bond enterprises in
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