When Wall Street Met Main Street

Auteur
Julia C. Ott is Assistant Professor of History at The New School for Social Research.

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The financial crisis of 2008 made Americans keenly aware of the impact Wall Street has on the economic well-being of the nation and its citizenry. Ott shows how the government, corporations, and financial institutions transformed stock investment from an elite to a mass practice at the beginning of the twentieth century.