NYTimes.com: How to make sense of Bernard L. Madoff? After his $65 billion Ponzi scheme unraveled, cultural critics looked to literary and theatrical antecedents: the shady financier Augustus Melmotte in Anthony Trollope’s “Way We Live Now”; the corner-cutting businessman Joe Keller in Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons”; and, especially, the thieving investor in Harley Granville-Barker’s play “The Voysey Inheritance.”
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