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SOROS

How billionaire investor George Soros became a global philanthropist, crashed the Bank of England, and transformed into the subject of conspiracy theories across two continents.

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What This Book Covers

  1. Chapter One - Budapest Boy
  2. Chapter Two - London Calling
  3. Chapter Three - Wall Street Shark
  4. Chapter Four - The Bank of England Incident
  5. Chapter Five - The Open Society Dream
  6. Chapter Six - Global Philanthropy, Global Fury
  7. Chapter Seven - A Network of NGOs
  8. Chapter Eight - The Puppetmaster Narrative
  9. Chapter Nine - Soros in Europe
  10. Chapter Ten - The American Front
  11. Chapter Eleven - What He Really Believes
  12. Chapter Twelve - Just George
  13. Chapter Thirteen - The Money Trail
  14. Chapter Fourteen - Legacy or Scapegoat?
  15. Chapter Fifteen - The Billionaire

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE Budapest Boy GEORGE SOROS WAS born in Budapest in 1930, at a time when Europe was slowly falling apart. He grew up in a well-educated Jewish family, the son of Tivadar Soros, a lawyer who believed in Esperanto and liberal ideals. But the world around them wasn’t idealistic. It was on fire. By the time Soros was a teenager, Hungary was already aligned with Nazi Germany. But in 1944 the Germans fully occupied the country and launched one of the fastest, deadliest mass deportations of the entire war. Soros, just fourteen years old, survived by hiding under a false identity. His father had arranged documents, contacts, and safe houses. It worked. The family avoided Auschwitz. Most...

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