A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read'Eye opening, deeply researched, and snort-out-your-nose funny. I dare you to put it down.' William Bernstein, author of The Four Pillars of Investing'Refreshingly unequivocal advice.' Publishers WeeklyIn richly told stories and wild self experiments, historian and investor Joseph Moore tests history's best and worst financial advice to find what worked, what d...

It is a program of steps for people to use to start their recovery from bouts of depression. It is also semi-biographical from my personal struggles with the emotion disorder. It is a guide and a self- help.

In a slow-paced 1970s Missouri, a young black son of a pastor searches for his place in the world.Eleven-year-old Jeremiah McGill is at a cusp in his young life. It’s 1971 and America is in a historical transition with sons in the Vietnam War, fundamental changes in civil rights, protests, and political tumult. As the young boy wants only to pass his time reading comic books and galivanting with his friends, his preacher father has a different divine destiny in mind for him. Feelin...

In the Civil War era, Americans nearly unanimously accepted that humans battled in a cosmic contest between good and evil and that God was directing history toward its end. The concept of God's Providence and of millennialism -- Christian anticipations of the end of the world -- dominated religious thought in the nineteenth century. During the tumultuous years immediately prior to, during, and after the war, these ideas took on a greater importance as Americans struggled with the unprecede...

A Next Big Idea Club Must-Read'Eye opening, deeply researched, and snort-out-your-nose funny. I dare you to put it down.' William Bernstein, author of The Four Pillars of Investing'Refreshingly unequivocal advice.' Publishers WeeklyIn richly told stories and wild self experiments, historian and investor Joseph Moore tests history's best and worst financial advice to find what worked, what d...