
From colonial ventures to Silicon Valley, "Americana" chronicles 400 years of American capitalism through innovation and entrepreneurship. Praised by Pulitzer winners as "narrative history at its best," Srinivasan reveals how both state intervention and free markets shaped our economic DNA. What surprising force truly drives American prosperity?
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A Hindu mother whispers prayers as her Air India flight touches down in 1984 Buffalo. She's smuggling something precious-her two sons, without proper visas. Back in educated, middle-class India, a telephone remained an impossible luxury. Here, her $14,000 postdoctorate salary could change everything. They could only afford one ticket. They came anyway. This gamble captures something essential about American capitalism: it's always been less about freedom and more about refrigerators. The Pilgrims weren't just seeking religious liberty-they were trapped in a venture capital deal gone wrong. Merchant Adventurers demanded six days of weekly labor instead of four, claimed ownership of settlers' houses, and nearly canceled the whole expedition over financial disputes. When the leaking Speedwell forced everyone onto the Mayflower, landing 220 miles off course, half died that first winter. Their salvation? Beaver pelts and a pivot to private land ownership that tripled productivity overnight. America's origin story is a startup that barely survived its Series A funding. By the 1760s, Virginia's plantation elite had perfected a profitable contradiction: preaching liberty while building empires on slavery. When Parliament passed the Stamp Act, wealthy planters like Thomas Jefferson didn't just object to taxation without representation-they owed British creditors nearly half of the colonies' 4 million debt. Independence meant escaping both political control and loan payments.