Liaquat Ahamed: 1873 & 2026 - a short preview

Liaquat Ahamed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his history of the Great Depression is out with a prequel called 1873, the story of the breathtaking, first, truly global economic boom, and the bust that followed. I'll be in conversation with Ahamed at The Nantucket Book Festival on June 14th . I reached out to him now for a brief chat, because a lot of educated readers are wondering - is 1873 a…