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Author Ahamed, Liaquat.

Title Lords of finance : the bankers who broke the world / Liaquat Ahamed.

Publication Info. New York : Penguin Press, 2009.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  332.1 AHAMED    Check Shelf
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 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  332.1092 AH11    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  332.1092 AHAMED, LIAQUAT    DUE 04-01-24
 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  332.1092 S    Check Shelf
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 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  332.1092 AHA    Check Shelf

Description 564 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [509]-544) and index.
Contents pt. 1. The unexpected storm, August 1914. -- Prologue -- A strange and lonely man -- The young wizard -- A safe pair of hands -- L'inspecteur des finances -- Money generals -- pt. 2. After the deluge, 1919-23. -- Demented inspirations -- Uncle Shylock -- A barbarous relic -- pt. 3. Sowing a new wind, 1923-28. -- A bridge between chaos and hope -- The Dawes opening -- The golden chancellor -- La Bataille -- The first squalls -- Un petit coup de whisky -- pt. 4. Reaping another whirlwind, 1928-33. -- Into the vortex -- Purging the rottenness -- Magneto trouble -- A loose cannon on the deck of the world -- Gold fetters -- pt. 5. Aftermath, 1933-1944. -- Gold standard on the booze -- The caravans move on -- Epilogue.
Summary With penetrating insights for today, this vital history of the world economic collapse of the late 1920s offers portraits of four men--Montagu Norman, Amile Hilaire Emile Moreau, Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, and Benjamin Strong--whose personal and professional actions as heads of their respective central banks changed the course of the twentieth century.
Awards Pulitzer Prize, History, 2010.
Subject Capitalists and financiers -- Biography.
Bankers -- Biography.
Economic history -- 1918-1945.
Stock Market Crash, 1929.
Depressions -- 1929.
Norman, Montagu, 1871-1950.
Moreau, Emile, 1868-1950.
Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeley, 1877-1970.
Strong, Benjamin, 1872-1928.
Indexed Term Bankers Biography
Capitalists and financiers Biography
ISBN 9781594201820
159420182X
0143116800 paperback
9780143116806 paperback
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