Dot.Con: The Greatest Story Ever Sold

The history of the dot-com stock rise and fall from an economics reporter and staff writer for The New Yorker.

The Internet stock bubble wasn't just about goggle-eyed day traders trying to get rich on the Nasdaq and goateed twenty-five-year-olds playing wannabe Bill Gates. It was also about an America that believed it had discovered the secret of eternal prosperity: it said something about all of us, and what we thought about ourselves, as the twenty-first century dawned.

Business journalist ...