Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there would be no more poverty, no more depressions -- a "New Era" when everyone could be rich. But when reality finally struck, the consequences of such unbound optimism shocked the world.
Directed by Ellen Giffard, Muffie Meyer
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Philip Bosco
Narrator
Reuben L. Cain
Self
William C. Durant
Self (archive footage)
Thomas A. Edison
Self (archive footage)
Henry Ford
Self (archive footage)
Herbert Hoover
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John Kenneth Galbraith
J. P. Morgan
Self (archive footage)
Robert Sobel
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William Howard Taft
Self (archive footage)
Calvin Coolidge
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