As we reach the end of annus horribilis 2016, take some time to read — or listen — to these suggestions from a few of our friends.

In this excerpt from Steve Fraser's new book, The Age of Acquiescence, the historian wonders why people in the second Gilded Age aren't fighting back the way they did the first time.

Americans are fed up now with the powers that be, just as they were in the First Gilded Age. So why aren't people rising up to the same degree today?

Washington continues to reward wealthy donors and Wall Street, but what about everyday Americans? Author and historian Steve Fraser has answers.

Bill Moyers interviews Steve Fraser, author of Wall Street: America’s Dream Palace, about the modern parallels to the first Gilded Age.

Bill talks with historian Steve Fraser about America's greatest income gap in a hundred years.