The Carpetbaggers Summary
Harold Robbins

Everything you need to understand or teach The Carpetbaggers by Harold Robbins.

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The Carpetbaggers Summary

If The Carpetbaggers has a specific theme it is that only by the most Herculean efforts can an individual overcome the circumstances of his upbringing and lift the dead weight of the past from his shoulders. The Carpetbaggers is, however, the fourth most read book of all time for reasons that transcend theme. It is certainly a well told story, but it reached its extraordinarily large audience because of a combination of circumstances...

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