This is a book on the history of the United States. On the cover it reads: "Everything you need to know about American history but never learned", and that pretty much says it all.
A great book, that provides a good introduction to the history of the US. It gave me a better insight in what happened when, and the major events in the last few hundred years. From Columbus to the Revolutionary War, Civil War to Wilson, Kennedy, Nixon and Bush.
Sasha gave me this book when she came back the first time from the World Bank. It describes the circumstances and events that led to the crash of the stock market in October 1929, and the huge decline in the years that followed.
It's really interesting to read how ordinary people were involved in something (we know now) so historical and big. The books is not written from an economists' point of view, but more like an historicus. I had never really read about 1929 before, and this book is a good introduction, I liked it a lot.
