The Man Who Knew
Sebastian Mallaby
Penguin Publishing Group
<b>The definitive biography of the most important economic statesman of our time</b><br> <br> Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled access to his subject and his closest professional and personal intimates, brings into vivid focus the mysterious point where the government and the economy meet. To understand Greenspan's story is to see the economic and political landscape of the last 30 years&#8212;and the presidency from Reagan to George W. Bush&#8212;in a whole new light. As the most influential economic statesman of his age, Greenspan spent a lifetime grappling with a momentous shift: the transformation of finance from the fixed and regulated system of the post-war era to the free-for-all of the past quarter century. The story of Greenspan is also the story of the making of modern finance, for good and for ill. <br> <br> Greenspan's life is a quintessential American success story: raised by a...