A biting satire, JR features JR, an eleven-year-old capitalist, who embodies the cash culture he grows up in.The young JR manipulates his meagre economic beginnings including a shipment of Navy surplus picnic forks, a defaulted bond issue and turns them into a massive paper empire. The novel's satiric assault upon the American Dream, and the economics it represents makes a compulsive read andthe seminal American novel.
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A biting satire, JR features JR, an eleven-year-old capitalist, who embodies the cash culture he grows up in.The young JR manipulates his meagre economic beginnings including a shipment of Navy surplus picnic forks, a defaulted bond issue and turns them into a massive paper empire. The novel's satiric assault upon the American Dream, and the economics it represents makes a compulsive read andthe seminal American novel.
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Add this copy of Jr to cart. $40.00, good condition, Sold by Websters Bookstore Cafe rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from State College, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1976 by Jonathan Cape.
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Good. First Edition. First UK edition. Mild shelf wear, moderate scuffing on page edges. Pages clean, with slight age toning. Crease on spine, binding shows use but is intact.