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This book deals with a largely unexplored domain-local banking panics during the Great Depression-through the lens of one Ohio city. In a highly original contribution to the literature on banking panics during the time, which have heretofore concentrated solely on Chicago and New York, Messer-Kruse provides an exhaustive narrative of the events in Toledo in summer 1931 to the final liquidation of the closed banks in 1940. -Elmus Wicker, Indiana University Banksters, Bosses, and Smart Money will take a place beside a select set of other works in the field, which describe regional idiosyncrasies before and during the Great Depression. Messer-Kruse adds to a growing body of microeconomic and historical literature suggesting that many bank failures of the period were justified, running counter to widely held notions of contagions of fear that felled numerous sound banks, resulting in significant losses of worthwhile lending information and economic capital. -Joseph R. Mason, Drexel University

""This book deals with a largely unexplored domain-local banking panics during the Great Depression-through the lens of one Ohio city. In a highly original contribution to the literature on banking panics during the time, which have heretofore concentrated solely on Chicago and New York, Messer-Kruse provides an exhaustive narrative of the events in Toledo in summer 1931 to the final liquidation of the closed banks in 1940."" -Elmus Wicker, Indiana University ""Banksters, Bosses, and Smart Money will take a place beside a select set of other works in the field, which describe regional idiosyncrasies before and during the Great Depression. Messer-Kruse adds to a growing body of microeconomic and historical literature suggesting that many bank failures of the period were justified, running counter to widely held notions of contagions of fear that felled numerous sound banks, resulting in significant losses of worthwhile lending information and economic capital."" -Joseph R. Mason, Drexel University

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Timothy Messer-Kruse is associate professor of labor history and chair of the department of history, University of Toledo.

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