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It's difficult today to imagine how America survived the Great Depression--only through the stories of the common people who struggled during that era can we really understand it. These people are at the heart of this reinterpretation of one of the most crucial events of the twentieth century. Author Shlaes presents the neglected and moving stories of individual Americans, and shows how through brave leadership they helped establish the steadfast...
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[2006]
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Retired from his day job, Lubetkin is a board member of the Northern Pacific Railway Historical Association, though he lives in Virginia. He can explain. The story he tells about the surveying and building of the railway combines the American frontier and American business. Cooke, head of the country's most prestigious private banking house, put lots of money into a scheme that not only violated the common sense rule that a railway had to go from...
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2015.
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"Ties together some of the most important economic developments of recent years, with the common theme that they have been widely misunderstood and in some cases almost completely ignored"--
"Why has the Eurozone ended up with an unemployment rate more than twice that of the United States more than six years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers? Why did the vast majority of low- and middle-income countries suffer a prolonged economic slowdown in...