Reviews for New World Coming

The average rating for New World Coming based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2018-07-28 00:00:00 Julius Brown This was pretty good. Better than I was expecting. I learned things. My view of Herbert Hoover improved. He still screwed up when the crash came but it wasn't entirely his fault. Had no idea that Winston Churchill may have been one of the catalysts for the crash when, as chancellor of the exchequer, he obtained gold so that we no longer had the gold that our currency was relying upon. Hoover was trusting the markets to correct themselves but they were too panicked and looking out for themselves. A lot of space devoted to Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, H.L. Mencken, etc. Flappers, literary world. Well written, too. He had Notes but not actual footnotes which I would have preferred. Nice Bibliography, too.

Review # 2 was written on 2010-04-19 00:00:00 Thomas Herrman Taking me back to the 1920's, land of "Only Yesterday" by Frederick Allen. In fact, Miller tips his hat at the 1930's masterwork in an attempt to frame the era in a more modern perspective and fill in some of the more obvious prejudices and prat falls. Miller can write and his story telling is excellent. Within most chapters, he is concise with a flair for only the most sizzling of facts. In a few early chapters he succumbed to detail and resorted to name dropping in an headlong attempt to cram in a full era of trivia. I'm sure the impulse is hard to resist. That minor bitch aside, this is a grand effort and a great book. I should read it again with each new decade. it will always be relevant, even 100 years later in 2020. Aug 9, 2008