skopia
Galbraith reconstructs how a country talked itself into buying stock with borrowed money, from the Florida land boom onward, and names the bezzle: the embezzlement a rising market hides and a crash exposes.
Eighty-seven photographs of faces, storefronts, gravestones, and wooden churches, sequenced by Evans into a cold portrait of the United States. Robert Frank and the photographers after him worked from his example.
Mack and his friends, unemployed and unhurried, decide to repay Doc the marine biologist with a party. Steinbeck writes a Monterey street of bums and grocers and whores as a functioning society.