Overview

Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there would be no more poverty, no more depressions -- a "New Era" when everyone could be rich. But when reality finally struck, the consequences of such unbound optimism shocked the world.

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Cast

Philip Bosco

Reuben L. Cain

William C. Durant

Thomas A. Edison

Henry Ford

Herbert Hoover

John Kenneth Galbraith

J. P. Morgan

Robert Sobel

William Howard Taft