This ambitious, single-volume history of the United States reveals how the country’s economic evolution is inseparable from the nature of American life. The Age of Commerce spans the colonial era up to the outbreak of the Civil War. The Great Depression immediately sparked the Age of Control, when the government took on a more active role in the economy. Skepticism of government intervention in the Cold War combined with recession and stagflation during the 1970s led to a crisis of industrial capitalism. In the Age of Chaos that followed, the combination of deregulation and the growth of the finance industry created a booming economy but also striking inequalities and a lack of oversight that led directly to the crash of 2008. Today, the nature of capitalism in United States once again is at a crossroads. Jonathan Levy proves that capitalism in the United States has never been just one thing. Instead, it has morphed through the country’s history—and it’s likely changing again.