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Andrew Batson

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China research director for Gavekal Dragonomics. Aspiring blogger. Former Wall Street Journal. Places I've lived: Louisiana, Beijing, Pacific Northwest.

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On this theme, the great novel of trying, but failing, to achieve The American Dream is Wallace Stegner's *The Big Rock Candy Mountain*, which I re-read recently. Hardworking, talented guy keeps trying to strike it rich, comes close a few times but it always goes wrong.