One Day I’ll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America. By Benjamin C. Waterhouse . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. 274 pp. Hardcover, $29.99. ISBN: 978-0-393-86821-0

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One Day I’ll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America. By Benjamin C. Waterhouse. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. 274 pp. Hardcover, $29.99. ISBN: 978-0-393-86821-0 - Volume 99 Issue 3

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  title        = {{One Day I’ll Work for Myself: The Dream and Delusion That Conquered America. By Benjamin C. Waterhouse . New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2024. 274 pp. Hardcover, $29.99. ISBN: 978-0-393-86821-0}},
  author       = {Frank V. Cespedes},
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