Sam Hammersmark's Chicago -- Revolutionary recruitment: numbers and experience -- "True revolutionaries": Chicago's party culture in thought and action -- Red relief -- "Abolish capitalism": the Trade Union Unity League's potential and problems -- "Generals are of no use without an army": how...

"Relying on a broad array of records used together for the first time, Panic in the Loop reveals widespread fraud and insider abuse by bankers--and the complicity of corrupt politicians--that caused the Chicago banking debacle of 1932. It provides a fresh interpretation of the role played by...