Lords of finance : the bankers who broke the world
/ Liaquat Ahamed
- New York : Penguin Press , 2009.
- 564 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [533]-544) and index.
With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers unforgettable portraits of four men--Montagu Norman, Amile Moreau, Hjalmar Schacht, and Benjamin Strong--whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century.
9781594201820
2008044512
Capitalists and Financiers---United States----Biography Bankers----Biography