Free People, Free Markets. George Melloan
© 2017 by George Melloan
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FIRST AMERICAN EDITION
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Names: Melloan, George, 1927– author.
Title: Free people, free markets: how the Wall Street Journal opinion pages shaped America / by George Melloan.
Description: New York: Encounter Books, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016048072 (print) | LCCN 2017010311 (ebook)| ISBN 9781594039324 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Wall Street Journal. | Op-ed pages—United States—History. Press and politics—United States—History. | Dow Jones & Co.—History.
Classification: LCC PN4899.N42 W335 2017 (print) | LCC PN4899.N42 (ebook) DDC 071/.471—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016048072
TABLE OF CONTENTS
2 Barron Foresees a Fragile Peace
4 Kilgore Dissects the New Deal
5 Pearl Harbor’s ‘Stark Reality’
7 Forecasting a Vietnam Defeat
22 Two Wars, On Iraq and Drugs
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