Steve Fraser

Steve Fraser is working on a book about the two gilded ages. A TomDispatch regular and co-director of the American Empire Project series at Metropolitan Books, he is the author of, among other works, the recently published Wall Street: America's Dream Palace.

Currently

  • 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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Podcast

RadioNation with Laura Flanders, 12/29/08
This week, the year in Radio(Nation).Palin, Clinton, and Bush; Klein, Navasky and Danto. Our most compelling interviews of 2008. (13mb mp3)

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