Robb, George. Ladies of the Ticker: Women and Wall Street from the Gilded Age to the Great Depression. University of Illinois Press, 2017.
The book looks at the underappreciated contributions that women made to banking and the stock market in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Robb draws attention to the financial careers of women like Victoria Woodhull, who prioritized financial literacy over suffrage, and Hetty Green, who defied social standards. Using a variety of sources, including media coverage and the ledgers of stock brokers, Robb investigates how women negotiated the financial world, demonstrating differences in their knowledge, approaches, and dealings with markets.
Rauchway, Eric. The Great Depression & the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Eric Rauchway provides a well-informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, shedding light on both its achievements and shortcomings in this excellent short history. The Great Depression's origins, according to Rauchway, were America's post-war economic policies, which were characterized as "laissez-faire with a vengeance" and effectively cut off our country from the global economy at a time when the world most needed the United States. He demonstrates how Roosevelt's aggressive (and perhaps unconstitutional) Depression-fighting initiatives were made possible by the severity of the ensuing economic upheaval and the failure of the traditional methods of handling financial difficulties.
The book looks at the underappreciated contributions that women made to banking and the stock market in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Robb draws attention to the financial careers of women like Victoria Woodhull, who prioritized financial literacy over suffrage, and Hetty Green, who defied social standards. Using a variety of sources, including media coverage and the ledgers of stock brokers, Robb investigates how women negotiated the financial world, demonstrating differences in their knowledge, approaches, and dealings with markets.
Rauchway, Eric. The Great Depression & the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Eric Rauchway provides a well-informed account of the New Deal and the Great Depression, shedding light on both its achievements and shortcomings in this excellent short history. The Great Depression's origins, according to Rauchway, were America's post-war economic policies, which were characterized as "laissez-faire with a vengeance" and effectively cut off our country from the global economy at a time when the world most needed the United States. He demonstrates how Roosevelt's aggressive (and perhaps unconstitutional) Depression-fighting initiatives were made possible by the severity of the ensuing economic upheaval and the failure of the traditional methods of handling financial difficulties.