An extract from Steve Fraser's book on the end of the age of acquiescence and the rise of the populist right in America.

BY Steve Fraser 9 June 2016

Occupy Wall Street, the ongoing demonstration-cum-sleep-in that began a month ago not far from the New York Stock Exchange and has since spread like wildfire to cities around the country, may be a game-changer.

BY Steve Fraser 18 October 2011

To those who remember the history of 1929, the current crisis and rising public anger bears a painfully familiar ring. It happened once before -- a vital chapter in the ongoing story of how an old regime dies and a new one is born.

BY Steve Fraser 10 February 2009