Eric Rauchway is one of the rising stars of the history world. He teaches US history at UC Davis. He is young and has already published three books: The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2008; Blessed Among Nations: How the World Made America. Hill & Wang, 2006; Murdering McKinley: The Making of Theodore Roosevelt’s America. Hill & Wang, 2003. He contributes to a pretty interesting blog. I’ve read Blessed Among Nations and loved it. It’s an important book that every _Canadian_ historian and every historian anywhere who is interested in globalization should read.
It turns out that Rauchway has now published a novel set in the 1920s. He took a minor character from the Great Gatsby and made him the central character of a book called Banana Republican. Great title. Check out this NYT review.
The Past Speaks 