In the biography, the author compares early 20th century Chicago power czar Samuel Insull to a kind of tough plant.

在这本传记中，作者将二十世纪初期芝加哥能源巨头塞缪尔·英萨尔比作一种顽强的植物。

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Judges are on the take, cops beat up unionists, the utilities and railroad magnate Samuel Insull perhaps the biggest crook of all.

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At that time--to grandstand politically--FDR's Administration went after those who allegedly had caused the Great Depression, among them utilities magnate Samuel Insull and former Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon.

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It was Edison's financial clerk, Samuel Insull, who thought of creating a central plant that powers an entire region, turning electricity into a utility and vastly dropping its price.

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