The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan

By Sebastian Mallaby

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Business & Money

The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan (2016) is a biography by Sebastian Mallaby. Mallaby follows Alan Greenspan from his early career as an economist through his long tenure as Federal Reserve chairman. The book weighs his influence on monetary policy, bubbles and crises, and the faith placed in markets on his watch for a generation.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “This week's book of the week is "The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan" by Sebastian Mallaby. Alan Greenspan may be the most powerful unelected American of the last 50 years. This is a wonderfully written, intelligent, intimate biography of his climb up the pinnacles of power. It's also a vivid portrait of the American establishment as it moved right from the 1970s to the 1980s and 1990s.”