Taming the Street: The Old Guard, the New Deal, and FDR's Fight to Regulate American Capitalism

by Diana B. Henriques

After World War I, little effort was made by the federal government to enforce the antitrust laws

Hoover and many rural Protestants supported it.

Common wisdom today is that the wave of postcrash suicides is mere folklore, fed by a few lurid examples like Jimmy Riordan. But these specific suicides certainly happened;

By 1929, the richest 10 percent of the population was receiving fully half the national income; the richest one-tenth of 1 percent was getting nearly a quarter of the national income.

Depositors who became shareholders were, in effect, guaranteeing their own nest eggs.

along with a bill from Roosevelt to legalize beer, a wildly popular step away from Prohibition and a deft media distraction.

“The American people will not be deceived by anyone who attempts to suppress individual liberty under the pretense of patriotism.”