Books by Marc Levinson and Complete Book Reviews

The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
Marc Levinson, Author Princeton University Press $24.95 (376p) ISBN 978-0-691-12324-0
A book about the history of the shipping container? At first, one has to wonder why. (An eventuality not lost on the author, who muses ""What is it about the container that is so important? Surely not the thing itself...the standard container has...
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The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America
The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America
Marc Levinson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (384p) ISBN 978-0-8090-9543-8
The rise of the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company is a riveting business story, but it turns out the tale of its decline is equally mesmerizing. Levinson (The Box) brings the rise and fall of the A&P to life in spellbinding prose, tracing its...
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An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy
An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy
Marc Levinson. Basic, $27.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-465-06198-3
In the 1970s the global economy went to hell and stayed there because of overt shocks and deep transformations, argues former Economist editor Levinson (The Box) in this probing history. He pinpoints 1973 as the turning point when the Arab oil...
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