Liesl Schillinger is a book critic for the New York Times and writes on the arts for a variety of other publications.

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We'd Like To Thank You Herbert Hoover ... er, Alan Greenspan

4 Comments | Posted October 1, 2008 | 11:41 AM (EST)


Monday, after the biggest one-day drop in the U.S. stock market in history -- following a week in which the country's most established investment banks had toppled like dominoes -- it was easy to think that bread lines might loom in our nation's near future.

For those of us...

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