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Article: Wall Street's Big Bang.
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- January 28, 2009
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The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in its First Age of Terror
By Beverly Gage
Oxford University Press, 400 pages, $27.95
Long vilified by those who feel the moneyed class has betrayed them, Wall Street was shorthand (until very recently) for the fat cat bankers who decide who wins and who loses in the American economy, a power elite shuttling between jobs in Washington and the southern tip of Manhattan. As a result, well before 9/11, Wall Street was a target of protest--and, on rare occasions, acts of terror.