“The Great Boom is an engrossing saga of the remaking of America from the end of World War 11 to the year 2000. A fascinating, often surprising book, it explores the many people and discoveries that not only have renewed our country but that have also given us fuller, healthier, more productive lives.” —Dominick Dunne, author of The Way We Lived Then

“Bob Sobel was one of our finest financial historians, and this work is his most ambitious. Filled with details of why things happened the way they did over the past fifty years, The Great Boom offers a wonderful perspective on how we got here from where we started after World War II.” —Roy C. Smith, author of The Wealth Creators and The Global Bankers

“This last ambitious work by one of America's most noted historians of business and finance engagingly surveys the ways in which World War II veterans and their progeny built the most affluent society in human history. Mr. Sobel's narrative is especially notable for its deft back-and-forth movement between the doings of great entrepreneurs and the experience of ordinary Americans. Few works have so well combined in so readable a fashion the economic and social history of our own time.” —Alonzo Hamby, author of The Imperial Years: The United States since 1939

“Just as Tom Brokaw paid homage to the veterans of World War II with The Greatest Generation, Sobel here credits them with rebuilding America after the war. He argues that the same values that were instilled in Americans during wartime helped them lay the foundation for a half century of unprecedented prosperity. Suggesting that two subsequent generations followed their parents' lead, Sobel rosily paints a grand, sweeping portrait of U.S. life.” —Booklist

“A rigorous, engaging assessment of the impressive post-World War II economic growth in the United States by the late business historian Sobel . . . Conservative in bent, expansive in scope, sedulous in scholarship, often wise and wonderful.” —Kirkus Reviews