The global economy is in a state of extreme disequilibrium, having witnessed a series of crises in recent years, and it is predicted that such imbalances will soon culminate in the collapse of the US dollar and subsequently cause a worldwide slump. This book explains the origins…
On July 1, 1893, President Grover Cleveland vanished. He boarded a friend's yacht, sailed into the calm blue waters of Long Island Sound, and disappeared. He would not be heard from again for five days. What happened during those five days, and in the days and weeks that followe…
Dancing in the Dark shows how our worst economic crisis, as it eroded American individualism and punctured the American dream, produced in the 1930s some of the greatest writing, photography, and mass entertainment ever seen in this country.