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" ... Mary Pilon: The story of Monopoly’s origins came to me totally by accident. In 2009, I was reporting for The Wall Street Journal on various aspects of the Financial Crisis and wanted to mention Monopoly’s Depression-era origins in passing. I’ve long loved games and puzzles and thought the ironic nod would be appreciated. I kept looking for the story, but it wasn’t adding up. I contacted Ralph Anspach knowing he had made Anti-Monopoly and had been involved in some legal kerfuffle with Parker Brothers, but not much more. He quickly got back to me and started spinning the story which would ultimately take five years and 300 pages to report. And it ended up touching on themes I was interested in: business, history, legal issues, games, historical figures. Journalists know that often you don’t grab stories, they grab you. And before you know it, you’re sitting in a tiny apartment surrounded by depositions, Monopoly boards, pages of notes and a profound sense of authorly confusion. ... "