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“…Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Enter "Don Draper," 2007 -- Prelude: The Con Man, the Adman, and the Trickster: HermanMelville, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade, 1857 -- 1. The Huckster's Game -- 2. …”
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