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.

Looking Backward

October 1, 2008

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

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

Crowds and Power

March 16, 2006

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.