“An exhaustively researched pioneering study; brilliant investigative reporting.” — Jack Blicksilver, Georgia State University “An extraordinary and unusual book that makes an important contribution to
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Calmly reinterpreting the 1926 panic A historian sheds much-needed light on Florida’s abrupt shift from boom to bust. By William Warren Rogers Special to the
Title: Panic in Paradise: Florida’s Banking Crash of 1926 Author: Raymond B. Vickers Data: University of Alabama Press, 312 pages Reviewed by Simon Barker-Benifield Willie
Asking the superintendent to act
(Tribune archive photo)
A crowd of children and the unemployed marched to the office of Chicago Public Schools Superintendent William Bogan demanding free food in March 1932. During the Great Depression, teachers worked at reduced wages or went without pay in part because people were unable to pay their taxes.
Panic in Paradise is a comprehensive study of bank failures during the Florida land boom of the mid-1920s, during the years preceding the stock market crash of 1929.
Panic in the Loop reveals widespread fraud and insider abuse by bankers – and the complicity of corrupt politicians – that caused the Chicago banking debacle of 1932.
Raymond Vickers
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