Cover of Greenspan: The Man Behind Money

Greenspan: The Man Behind Money

Greenspan: The Man Behind Money presents the famous Fed Chairman as few know him. It spans his hardscrabble childhood in Depression-era New York City, his fascinating decades-long friendship with controversial author Ayn Rand, his Juilliard education and days spent touring with Henry Jerome's jazz band, as well as two marriages, a dynamic D.C. social life, and service to six U.S. presidents. Based on unprecedented access to Greenspan's family members and peers, including Henry Kissinger, Gerald Ford, and Milton Friedman, Greenspan: The Man Behind Money is the only book to shed real light on one of the most private public figures of our time.

Subject
biographyeconomicsbusinesspolitics
Setting
USA
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 336 pages

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked Greenspan: The Man Behind Money? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked Greenspan: The Man Behind Money. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Maestro: Greenspan's Fed and the American Boom Shares economics, biography, nonfiction
  2. Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence Shares economics, biography, nonfiction
  3. Milton Friedman: A Biography Shares economics, biography, nonfiction
  4. The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World Shares economics, biography, nonfiction

“If you want more of the same (biography), start with these.”

  1. The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan
  2. In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington
  3. The Courage to Act: A Memoir of a Crisis and Its Aftermath
  4. The Men Who Loved Trains: The Story of Men Who Battled Greed to Save an Ailing Industry

“If it was the economics that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. Universal Man: The Lives of John Maynard Keynes
  2. John Maynard Keynes: 1883-1946: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman
  3. John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics
  4. Hayek's Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. W.A.R.: The Unauthorized Biography of William Axl Rose
  2. Forever and Forever: The Courtship of Henry Longfellow and Fanny Appleton
  3. Phish: The Biography
  4. Getting High: The Adventures of Oasis