“A style that is verve itself.” — New York Times“A perfectly grand piece of historical record and synthetic journalism.” — Chicago Daily TribuneFrom Frederick Lewis Allen, former editor-in-chief of Harper’s magazine, comes a classic history
"Vividly and with great skills he marshals the men, the mountebanks, the measures, and the events of ten years of American life and causes them to march before us in orderly panathenaic procession."--Saturday Review
The story of the immense financial and corporate expansion which occurred in the United States between the depression of the 1890's and the crisis of the 1930's, with an analysis of the leaders and the forces that brought boom and bust.
