America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve.
"Your bank is so big and so powerful, Mr. Shillman that when the next panic comes, you will wish your responsibilities were smaller": First Edition of Roger Lowenstein's America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve; Lengthily Inscribed by him
America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve.
LOWENSTEIN, Roger.
Item Number: 132182
New York: Penguin Press, 2015.
First edition of this work by the award-winning writer. Octavo, original half cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the half-title page, “To John- Your bank is so big and so powerful, Mr. Shillman that when the next panic comes, you will wish your responsibilities were smaller. All best Roger Lowenstein.” Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Jim Tierney.
A tour de force of historical reportage, America’s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America’s modern central bank, the Federal Reserve. Today, the Fed is the bedrock of the financial landscape, yet the fight to create it was so protracted and divisive that it seems a small miracle that it was ever established.
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