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In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a stunning blow to the New Deal, to Bill W., who founded Alcoholics Anonymous, and Father Divine, a black cult leader.

Produktbeschreibung
In this illuminating work of history, Shlaes follows the struggles of those now forgotten people, from a family of butchers in Brooklyn who dealt a stunning blow to the New Deal, to Bill W., who founded Alcoholics Anonymous, and Father Divine, a black cult leader.
Autorenporträt
Amity Shlaes is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in economic history. She is also a syndicated columnist for Bloomberg. She has written for the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal, where she was an editorial board member. Over the years her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Fortune, Forbes, National Review, the New Republic, Foreign Affairs and both the Spectator and the American Spectator. While preparing this book she served as JP Morgan fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Shlaes is the author of The Greedy Hand and Germany: The Empire Within.
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"Amity Shlaes is among the most brilliant of the young writers who are transforming American financial journalism." Paul Johnson, author of Modern Times