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SUMMARY:CANCELED: Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American Dream
DESCRIPTION:Over the last generation\, the United States has undergone seismic changes. Stable institutions have given way to frictionless transactions\, which are celebrated no matter what collateral damage they generate. The concentration of great wealth has coincided with the fraying of social ties and the rise of inequality. How did all this come about? \nIn Transaction Man\, Nicholas Lemann explains the United States’―and the world’s―great transformation by examining three remarkable individuals who epitomized and helped create their eras. Adolf Berle\, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s chief theorist of the economy\, imagined a society dominated by large corporations\, which a newly powerful federal government had forced to become benign and stable institutions\, contributing to the public good by offering stable employment and generous pensions. By the 1970s\, the corporations’ large stockholders grew restive under this regime\, and their chief theoretician\, Harvard Business School’s Michael Jensen\, insisted that firms should maximize shareholder value\, whatever the consequences. Today\, Silicon Valley titans such as the LinkedIn cofounder and venture capitalist Reid Hoffman hope “networks” can reknit our social fabric. \nLemann interweaves these fresh and vivid profiles with a history of the Morgan Stanley investment bank from the 1930s through the financial crisis of 2008\, while also tracking the rise and fall of a working-class Chicago neighborhood and the family-run car dealerships at its heart. Incisive and sweeping\, Transaction Man is the definitive account of the reengineering of America and the enormous impact it has had on us all. \nLemann is the Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Pulitzer Moore Professor of Journalism and Dean Emeritus of the Faculty of Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999. \nThis book talk includes comments by Paul Frymer\, Professor of Politics and director of the Program in Law and Public Affairs\, and Sean Wilentz\, George Henry Davis 1886 Professor of American History. The event is organized by Julian Zelizer and is co-sponsored by the Center for Collaborative History\, the Humanities Council’s Program in Journalism\, and the Economic History Workshop.
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