Echoes in the Jazz Age
The Geneva Protocol cost twelve thousand dollars a dose. Twelve thousand dollars, which in the summer of 1926 was enough to buy a small island, or a vineyard in Bordeaux, or—most accessibly—a very comfortable life in Manhattan for three generations. I sat in my office on Forty-Second Street, watching the rain streak the window. The building across the street was painted a color that could only...
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