3/5

Not the most boring book I’ve read on Financial History by a mile, but still not exactly riveting stuff here. I do generally find the authors arguments convincing, the cascading crisis of the Great Depression was more or less directly down stream from the Versailles settlement and its aftermath. This is also secretly a Keynes biography so I accidentally read two of those in a row, so I think I’d believe just about anything about the 20s at this point if you told me its vaguely in line with what Keynes believed. I think this will be my go to recommendation for anyone interested in the economic mechanisms of the Depression, but so much of what makes writing on the 30s interesting isn’t about the economic mechanisms.