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By Michael Kinsley | Friday, February 27, 2009 | The Washington Post

“…’The American Earthquake’ is what the critic Edmund Wilson called his collection of reportage (mostly for the New Republic) about the Great Depression, and as a metaphor it’s a good one. It captures, as ‘Depression’ does not, the element of surprise, the panic, the remorse and the disbelief as it seems more and more likely that this actually is ‘the big one’….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/26/AR2009022602907_pf.html