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The Financial Turn: Historicizing American Capitalism after the Great Recession - Jonathan Levy. Freaks of Fortune: The Emerging World of Capitalism and Risk in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. 432 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0674047488. - Julia C. Ott When Wall Street Met Main Street: The Quest for an Investor's Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011. 352 pp. $35.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-05065-5.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2014

Ian C. Hartman
Ian C. Hartman*
Affiliation:
University of Alaska Anchorage
*
ichartman@uaa.alaska.edu
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , October 2014 , pp. 600 - 605
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2014 

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References

1 Recent works include Cowie, Jefferson, Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class (New York, 2010)Google Scholar; Stein, Judith, Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies (New Haven, 2011)Google Scholar; and Rodgers, Daniel T., Age of Fracture (Cambridge, MA, 2011)Google Scholar.

2 These two studies join several others as indispensable in the new wave of historiography of U.S. capitalism. Some of the most recent include Zakim, Michael and Kornblith, Gary J. eds., Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth Century America (Chicago, 2012)Google Scholar; Hyman, Louis, Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (Princeton, 2011)Google Scholar; and Mihm, Stephen, A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States (Cambridge, MA, 2009)Google Scholar.