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Steve Fraser

Steve Fraser is a writer, editor and senior lecturer in history at the University of Pennsylvania. His new book, Wall Street: America's Dream Palace, is forthcoming from Yale in April.

Currently

  • 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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