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FreakonomicsNot content to use the list only for himself, he sold it for $150,000 to the governor of Louisiana. Years later, Duke would once again use the list himself, letting his supporters know that heБЂ™d fallen on hard times and needed their donations. In this way Duke was able to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for his continuing work in the field of white supremacy. He had explained to his supporters in a letter that he was so broke that the bank was trying to repossess his house. In truth, Duke had already sold his house for a solid profit. (It isnБЂ™t known whether he used a real-estate agent.) And most of the money he raised from his supporters was being used not to promote any white supremacist cause but rather to satisfy DukeБЂ™s gambling habit. It was a sweet little scam he was runningБЂ”until he was arrested and sent to federal prison in Big Spring, Texas. Levitt fits everywhere and nowhere. He is a noetic butterfly that no one has pinned down (he was once offered a job on the Clinton economic team, and the 2000 Bush campaign asked him about being a crime advisor) but who is claimed by all ...» | Код для вставки книги в блог HTML
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