A Brief Popular Account of all the Financial Panics and Commercial Revulsions in the US from 1690 to 1857
by Members of the New York Press
The New York Press book is a compilation of popular accounts of the crises assembled by the press. There are poems, jokes and articles about those pre-Civil War crises – there is everything here. They were correct in putting the 1837 and 1857 panics on the cover as they were the important panics prior to the Civil War.
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