History Ch. - The Toys that Built America Series 1 (2021) Part 4 Board Game Empires

The Toys That Built America Series 1

The Toys That Built America chronicles the stories & rivalries that gave rise to the modern toy industry. Against the backdrop of events like the Civil War, the Great Depression, and the Vietnam War, visionaries like Milton Bradley, the Parker Brothers, Ruth and Elliott Handler, and Merrill Hassenfeld all courted failure and ruin at every turn on their way to building billion-dollar empires.

Part 4 Board Game Empires

After failing to make a living selling lithographs, Milton Bradley creates one of America's first board games, which will go on to become one of the biggest of all time. But the Parker brothers threaten Bradley's reign. But it's a game about Monopoly that will upend the business. And in its earliest days, it might have been pirated from its true creator, who has been largely lost to history–until now.

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