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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
The exchange artist The exchange artist Jane Kamensky This book recounts the story of Andrew Dexter, a chronically overleveraged real estate developer who engineered profound shifts in the economy and skyline of turbulent early America. Dexter built the… OL18159782W
Blindspot Blindspot Jane Kamensky "Tis a small canvas, this Boston," muses Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter who, having fled his debtors in Edinburgh, has washed up on America's far shores. Eager to begin anew in this new… OL2648432W
The exchange artist The exchange artist Jane Kamensky The Exchange Artist tells the story of Andrew Dexter, Junior and the first American skyscraper. Equal parts entrepreneur and confidence man, Dexter erected his swagger building, the Exchange Coffee H… OL2648433W