Steve Fraser

Steve Fraser is a visiting professor at New York University, co-founder of the American Empire Project, and the author, most recently, of Wall Street: America's Dream Palace. He is is working on a book about America's two Gilded Ages.

Currently

  • The Misunderstood Robber Baron

    November 11, 2009

    T.J. Stiles's The First Tycoon is a gilded portrait of the robber baron Cornelius Vanderbilt.

  • Angry America and the Bailout

    February 10, 2009

    As the bailout state goes into overdrive, popular anger at the lords of Wall Street is raging. In 1929, that anger was harnessed to result in huge change. Is the same change possible in 2009?

2008

  • Beyond the Bailout State

    December 1, 2008

    If original thinking doesn't find a home among the Obama administration's Clinton-era Brainiacs, how can we move beyond the bailout state?

  • Looking Backward

    October 1, 2008 Subscribe

    As America's second Gilded Age fissions around us, we can sense the zeitgeist shift. Are we staring into the abyss of 1929 or heading for a new New Deal?

  • Wall Street and Washington

    September 19, 2008

    Washington's mission may, at this late date, be an even greater one than Roosevelt's New Deal faced.

  • United We Scam

    January 10, 2008

    Two new books profile the generation of counterfeiters and con men who sprouted up in Jacksonian-era America.

2007

  • Take the Money and Run

    March 15, 2007 Subscribe

    New biographies of Andrew Carnegie and Andrew Mellon depict the two primeval capitalists in all their contradictory complexity.

2006

  • Crowds and Power

    March 16, 2006 Subscribe

    In Death in the Haymarket James Green uses the story of the Haymarket riot to expose the hopes and fears of nineteenth-century America, a nation living on the knife-edge of social catastrophe.

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