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I'm going back to the Pekinez show. Phyllos Miscellany hasn't been here in a while, but he's back.

What's going on, Phylos? Not much. It's a pleasure to be here. Thank you for having me back on.

You are welcome. I can't wait for this because there was a Not much. It's a pleasure to be here. Thank you for having me back on.

You are welcome. I can't wait for this because there was a name that came up in the recent series I did with Stormy on the robber barons, and we never really dove into who that was.

And you had mentioned that you had a book on them and then you started researching him and going down a rabbit hole. And it was like, hey, let's talk about this on the show.

Who are we talking about today, Phylos? We are talking about a man named Bernard Baruch,

but I'm not going to say it like that because it's going to get really obnoxious. So I'm just going to call him Baruch. The book that was written about

him is a hagiography, written while he was still alive, by a woman named Margaret Coyt in

1957. Mr. Baruch himself commissioned the book, and she spent seven years writing.

She had access to all of his personal papers, interviewed everyone that he knew, but Baruch disliked

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