Steve Fraser is an author, an editor, and a historian whose many publications include the award-winning books "Labor Will Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of American Labor" and "Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life," He is senior lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and co-founder of the American Empire Project, Metropolitan Books. He has written for the" New York Times," the" Los Angeles Times," the" Nation," and the "American Prospect,"