Publisher Description
In this panorama of the thirties, Frederick Lewis Allen combines an eye for the significant trivia of everyday existence with a facility for neatly dissecting the political monoliths of the era. Whether discussing the varieties of bathtub gin or elucidating Keynesian economics, Allen displays, in the words of Edward Weeks of The Atlantic, “a talent for terse and telling résumé which is the envy of any historian.”
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“I read this in 2010 following the collapse of the financial system that I had worked in for a decade. In it Allen paints a picture that is eerily similar to our own stunted recovery.”
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Robert (4 out of 5 stars)
