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Subtitle: The Epic History of American Economic Power, Harper, N.Y.,
2004, 460 pgs, index, bibliography, notes, paperback
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Reviewer comment: This book should be read along with Christopher
Whalen's Inflated - both describe the
financial basis for the expansion of American economic development and power.
And also read Felix Martin's Money, a more
general analysis of American finance. Also read Charles Calomiris' Fragile by Design - a history of banking.
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Introduction - The Pursuit of Happiness
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Part I - A Vast and Roaring Wilderness
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Chapter 1 - The Land, the People, and the Law
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Chapter 2 - In the Name of God and Profit
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Chapter 3 - The Atlantic Empire
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Part II - A Country That Could make Itself As it Pleased
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Transition: The American Revolution
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Chapter 4 - The Hamiltonian Creation
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Chapter 5 - A Terrible Synergy
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Chapter 6 - Labor Improbus Omnia Vincit
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Chapter 7 - The Jeffersonian Destruction
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Chapter 8 - New Jersey Must Be Free!
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Chapter 9 - Chaining the Lightning of Heaven
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Chapter 10 - Whales, Wood, Ice, and Gold
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Part III - The Emerging Colossus
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Transition- The Civil War
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Chapter 11 - Capitalism Red in Tooth and Claw
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Chapter 12 - Doing Business with Glass Pockets
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Chapter 13 - Was There Ever Such a Business!
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Chapter 14 - A Cross of Gold
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Part IV - The American Century Begins
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Transition: The First World War
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Chapter 15 - Getting Prices Down to the Buying Power
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Chapter 16 - Fear Itself
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Chapter 17 - Converting Retreat into Advance
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Part V - A New Economic Revolution
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Transition: The Second World War
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Chapter 18 - The Great Postwar Boom
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Chapter 19 - The Crisis of the New Deal Order
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Chapter 20 - A New Economy, a New World, a New Year
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