{"product_id":"the-moneychangers-hardcover","title":"The Moneychangers - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eUpton Sinclair won a Pulitzer Prize for his notorious 1906 novel The Jungle, a fictionalized account of the barbaric conditions of the men and women who worked in Chicago's meatpacking industry. And just as the horrific circumstances he exposed in that book more than a century ago appear to be recurring in our fast-food nation, so do those he highlights in his 1908 novel, the cautionary tale The Moneychangers. First published in 1908, this is the story of a small band of Wall Street players who plot to outmaneuver their rivals via financial schemes that sound all too familiar in today's chaotic economic environment: shell companies and creative accounting lure unwitting investors to prop up secretly bankrupt corporations, prompting a stock market crash, a bank run, and a dramatic rise in unemployment. As with The Jungle, this is based on real events-the Wall Street crash of 1907-and reads as startlingly prescient today, as the very crimes Sinclair strove to highlight plague society once again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68050267701471,"sku":"9781616402686","price":41.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Bjea-pj3cn9781616402686.webp?v=1792057841","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-moneychangers-hardcover","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}