Echols shortfall; family secrets, financial collapse, and a hidden history of american banking (2017)

... years before New Deal–era financial reform, banking, big and small, was often characterized by what one legendary financial reformer called “legal chicanery” aided by “beneficent darkness.” Many... history labor, conservatism, the West, and gender It features a braided narrative: a financial history, a community study, and a family history British writer Alison Light has described family history. .. to African Americans, immigrants, and women? What place would Native Americans have in this reconstructing nation? And by 1877, the year of the Great Railroad Strike, there was no avoiding another