Reviews of Vic Vickers’ Books

Lexington Books – The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group

Congratulations to Raymond Vickers, who received the Silver award in
the Independent Publishers Book Awards (Finance/Investment/Economics
category) for his book, Panic in the Loop: Chicago’s Banking Crisis of
1932.

Learn more about this award winning book here.

 

Reviews of Panic in the Loop: Chicago’s Banking Crisis of 1932:

“Vickers has produced a book that stands out in the scholarship of the banking crisis of the 1930s. It’s also greatly relevant to the recent financial collapse that has rocked the American and world economies. In the more than 75 years since the 1932 Chicago banking crisis, little has changed. Insider abuse at banks, weak regulation, and the protection of miscreants by powerful politicians of both major parties characterize what happened in the 1930s and recently. Deeply probing research in records often overlooked by scholars allows Vickers to carefully expose the web of private and public influence and often fraudulent behavior that sank Chicago’s leading banks in the 1930s. His research should inspire scholars and investigators determined to discover the roots of our recent financial collapse.”

-William H. Becker, The George Washington University

“Panic in the Loop is timely in view of the current financial crisis. Vickers uncovers the corruption, betrayal, and theft of public and private funds in 1932 Chicago and establishes a model for uncovering contemporary financial chicanery. Discussion of the Enron crisis gives the analysis contemporary value and validity and raises the specter of corruption behind the sub-prime mortgage façade. Scholars and students will find Panic in the Loop a worthy title for reading lists.”

-David O. Whitten, Auburn University, and author, with Douglas Steeples, of Democracy in Desperation: The Depression of 1893

“Rarely has the case for transparency in the regulation banks been made so well. It is hard to imagine that the bankers that caused the Chicago panic of 1932 would have been so brazen or the regulators so slow to stop them if their actions had been quickly made public.”

-Eugene N. White, Rutgers University

Reviews of Panic in Paradise: Florida’s Banking Crash of 1926: 

“An exhaustively researched pioneering study; brilliant investigative reporting.”

— Jack Blicksilver, Georgia State University

“An extraordinary and unusual book that makes an important contribution to our understanding of banking history and the general economic history oof the 1920s. The banking collapse in the Southeast is virtually unknown, even to specialists in banking and financial history. No one who is interested in the banking history of the United States will want to miss this book.”

— Eugene N. White, Rutgers University

 

The Business Library Review, An International Journal, (Feb., 1996), pp. 7-11
Reviewed by David O. Whitten, Auburn University

The American Historical Review, Vol. 101, No. 2. (Apr., 1996), pp. 585-586
Reviewed by Lynne Pierson Doti, Chapman University

The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 55, No.2. (Jun., 1995), pp. 444-445
Reviewed by David C. Wheelock, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Choice, Current Reviews of Academic Books, Vol. 32, No. 5 (Jan., 1995), p. 840
Reviewed by S. L. Engerman, University of Rochester

The Tallahassee Democrat, (1996)
Reviewed by Dr. William Warren Rogers

The Florida Times-Union, (Nov. 6, 1994)
Reviewed by Simon Barker-Benfield