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The Stock Market Crash in Historical Context

​The “Roaring Twenties,” when businessmen ran the government, brought a rising standard of living, but not for everyone. When the new era came crashing down on October 29, 1929, Americans turned to a government that worked for everyone. 

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Heather Cox Richardson
Heather Cox Richardson is a political historian who uses facts and history to make observations about contemporary American politics. She has written about the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Gilded Age, and the American West in award-winning books whose subjects stretch from the European settlement of the North American continent to the history of the Republican Party through the Trump administration. She is the author, most recently, of the best-selling Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America.
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