For more than 25 years, John Steele Gordon, a North Salem resident, has written on business and economic history. Today, the author of many books (The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street, Hamilton’s Blessing ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: John Steele Gordon is an Author with nine videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1997 Speech. The year with the most videos was 2001 with two videos.

One of the many reasons to mourn the passing of the late, lamented American Heritage magazine – especially for economics/finance geeks like us – was the end of John Steele Gordon’s “Business of ...

The British government wanted to find out what had gone wrong because [Great Britain] had also laid a submarine cable from India to Suez, at its own expense. They had spent 800,000 pounds, which was ...

These 47 articles, gathered from Gordon's 10 years as an American Heritage columnist, cover the post-Revolutionary period through the 1950s. Some pieces retell familiar stories, such as how Samuel ...

Preface: A fascinating shape -- The Father of his country -- The gift of the Nile -- Building a stump -- Stealing obelisks -- Paris and London take their prizes -- Reaching the top -- Securing New ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Historian John Steele Gordon, writing on Barack Obama’s economic policies in the April issue of Commentary, says that the ...

Will Zohran Mamdani Try To Reach Gracie Mansion by Scapegoating Billionaires Who Made New York City Great? The city currently has 123 billionaire residents, the most of any city in the world. In the ...