Steve Fraser is the author of The Age of Acquiescence and Every Man a Speculator among other books and has written for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, The Nation, and the London Review of Books. He lives in New York City.
How an Incendiary Image United the Right and Fractured America
A renowned historian traces the genealogy of the "limousine liberal," the largely imagined enemy that has animated right-wing populism for nearly a century.
Wall Street: no other place on earth is so singularly identified with money and the power of money. And no other American institution has inspired such deep moral, cultural, and political ambivalence. Is the Street an unbreachable bulwark defending commercial order? Or is it a center of mad ambition?
"A superb, vibrant biography that mirrors American labor's "sea change" from insurgent proletariat to a force integrated into capitalist mass culture.—Publishers Weekly