This edition: Beverly Gage, author, "The Day Wall Street Exploded"
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Original tape date: March 11, 2009.Sheryl welcomes historian Beverly Gage, author and Professor of American History at Yale University, to the program. In this episode, she tells about a bombing in the Financial district which could have been ripped from today's headlines. It occurred on September 16th, in 1920. Her book, “The Day Wall Street Exploded: America in Its First Age of Terror” has just been published by the Oxford University Press and it has received rave reviews.
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