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The Great Depression and the New Deal
Oxford University Press, USA 2008; US$ 9.99The New Deal shaped our nation's politics for decades, and was seen by many as tantamount to the "American Way" itself. Now, in this superb compact history, Eric Rauchway offers an informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, illuminating its successes and failures. Rauchway first describes how the roots of the Great Depression... more...
Blessed Among Nations
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007; US$ 18.99Nineteenth-century globalization made America exceptional. On the back of European money and immigration, America became an empire with considerable skill at conquest but little experience administering other people's, or its own, affairs, which it preferred to leave to the energies of private enterprise. The nation's resulting state institutions... more...
Banana Republican
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010; US$ 8.99Depicted as braggart, brute, and bore in The Great Gatsby , Tom Buchanan has gotten a bad rap and means to correct the record. That weak-kneed, simpering cousin of his wife?s, with his prattling about some lost idealized American individualism and rectitude, was not only a fool and a liar, but worse: a failed bond salesman. Pathetic. But by 1924... more...
The Refuge of Affections
Columbia University Press 2001; US$ 34.99The Progressives?those reformers responsible for the shape of many American institutions, from the Federal Reserve Board to the New School for Social Research?have always presented a mystery. What prompted middle-class citizens to support fundamental change in American life? Eric Rauchway shows that like most of us, the reformers took their inspiration... more...
Murdering McKinley
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007; US$ 14.99When President William McKinley was murdered at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, on September 6, 1901, Americans were bereaved and frightened. Rumor ran rampant: A wild-eyed foreign anarchist with an unpronounceable name had killed the commander-in-chief. Eric Rauchway's brilliant Murdering McKinley restages Leon Czolgosz's hastily... more...
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