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Wall Street Steve Fraser

Wall Street By Steve Fraser

Wall Street by Steve Fraser


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Summary

A history of American economic power, told through the Manhattan street that came to define it.

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Wall Street by Steve Fraser

Fraser brilliantly traces the imaginative history of Wall Street through novels and plays and political polemics, in the great prose of Twain and Wharton, Melville and James and a host of other writers, but also remembers the screams of rage of forgotten and marginalized protestors against the colossus that grew big speculating with other people's money. He weaves together the history of cut-throat business deals with the delirious image of the place in popular culture. The book is also a wonderful history of US economic life: from the exploitation of the shifting frontier, to the railway boom, the surreal corruption of the Gilded Age, and the time of the robber barons and of Morgan and gigantic trusts. Fraser takes the story through the great crash, the New Deal, the Second World War and the long golden age that followed it, and finally offers a measured indictment of an irresponsibly unfettered free market and of its destabilizing effects - at a time when investment on Wall Street has become a popular mania in the USA.

About Steve Fraser

Steve Fraser is the author of Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor, which won the Philip Taft Prize for labour history. He has been a teaching fellow at Princeton and has also taught at New York University. He writes for The Nation, Los Angeles Times, Raritan and Dissent. He lives in New York City with his wife and children.

Additional information

GOR002803114
9780571218288
0571218288
Wall Street by Steve Fraser
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Faber & Faber
2005-04-07
656
N/A
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