On The Brink

Description for ON THE BRINK by Benjamin Stein with Herbert Stein: IT'S 1981.  THE ARABS HAVE THE FINANCIAL WORLD BY THE THROAT, AND THEY'RE STARTING TO SQUEEZE... It begins when OPEC doubles the price of oil.  As costs go up, Europe goes down.  And a desperate President gluts the U.S. with useless greenbacks in an effort to save the economy. Instead---he sets off a wild inflationary spree that brings the country to its knees... Wall Street crashes.  Riots and arson raze the cities.  And a grass-roots governor names Whitelaw preaches a simple, fascist gospel to the American masses.  Already, two million call him leader.  Already, they are a people... ON THE BRINK