The Moneychangers

Here, Upton Sinclair presents us with a 1907 novel about the panic on Wall Street. He's talking about a financial disaster caused by deliberately powerful capitalists who want to ruin their opponents — basically bad people who live to lure each other. We are a nation, Sinclair said, fundamentally corrupt — our government, our banks, our industries — all seeking personal destruction for their own good... Sinclair tells a fascinating story; If you don't know his work, it's good to take his paranoid vision and understand it...

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