Portraits of Kim looked down on barracks with nothing but plastic sheeting over the windows.

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The concept of vacation portraits has been floating around for a while, but it accelerated last September with the founding of the site Candidtag, the first major platform to promote the genre.

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As it happens, Maury Klein does not cite Fisher's quote, but otherwise he tells the story of the crash clearly and well, with some especially good pen portraits of characters such as Thomas Lamont, Jesse Livermore, Charley Mitchell and Albert Wiggin (who actually made money short-selling).

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