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Liaquat Ahamed (born 14 November 1952 in Kenya) is an American author. [1] Life and work. Liaquat Ahamed was born in Kenya, where his grandfather had emigrated to from Gujarat, India by way of Zanzibar in the late 19th century. [2] . He was educated at Rugby School in England, at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at Harvard University. [3] [4]
A compelling account of how four powerful bankers played crucial roles in triggering the Great Depression and ultimately transforming the United States into the world's financial leader. Lee C. Bollinger, President of Columbia University (left), presents the 2010 History prize to Liaquat Ahamed. Winning Work.
Liaquat Ahamed, a hedge fund manager and Brookings Institution trustee, first got the idea to write the book when he read the 1999 Time story “The Committee to Save the World,” which discussed Alan Greenspan (then the Federal Reserve chairman), Robert Rubin (Bill Clinton’s Treasury Secretary) and Lawrence Summers (Rubin’s No. 2).
- Liaquat Ahamed
- 2009
Dec 29, 2009 · by Liaquat Ahamed (Author) 4.6 1,712 ratings. See all formats and editions. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize“Erudite, entertaining macroeconomic history of the lead-up to the Great Depression as seen through the careers of the West’s principal bankers . . .
- Liaquat Ahamed
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Jan 15, 2009 · Liaquat Ahamed’s “Lords of Finance” is supposed to be a history book about the economics of World War I and the Great Depression.
Jan 1, 2009 · Liaquat Ahamed has created an outstanding historical work with in-depth portraits of the four imminent bankers, insightful observations, impressive bibliography, and great number of footnotes. The content and the style of Lords of Finance deserve nothing short of 5 stars.
2021-2022 Weber SymposiumIn his best-selling, Pulitzer prize-winning book, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, Liaquat Ahamed discusses the in...
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