14, 2009 Introduction On August 15, 1931, the following press statement was issued: 'The Governor of the Bank of England has been indisposed as a result. In Lords of Finance, we meet these men, the four bankers who truly broke the world: the enigmatic Norman Montagu of the bank of England, Benjamin Strong of the NY Federal Reserve, the arrogant yet brilliant Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbanlk and the xenophobic Emile Moreau of the Banque de France. It was published in 1946 by Little, Brown and Company, and won the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for History. Liaquat Ahamed tells their story in vivid and gripping detail, in a timely and arresting reminder that individuals - their ambitions, limitations and human nature - lie at the very heart of global catastrophe. ‘Lords of Finance’ By Liaquat Ahamed Jan. Scientists Against Time is a nonfiction history book by James Phinney Baxter III. Their names were lost to history, their lives and actions forgotten, until now. In Lords of Finance, we meet these men, the four bankers who truly broke the world: the enigmatic Norman Montagu of the bank of England, Benjamin Strong of the. He has worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., and the New York based partnership of Fischer Francis Trees and Watts, where he served as chief executive. In Lords of Finance, we meet these men, the four bankers who truly broke the world- the enigmatic Norman Montaguof the bank of England, Benjamin Strong of the NY Federal Reserve, the arrogant yet brilliant Hjalmar Schacht of the Reichsbanlk and the xenophobic Emile Moreau of the Banque de France. Liaquat Ahamed has been a professional investment manager for twenty-five years. Yet the economic meltdown could have been avoided, had it not been for the decisions taken by a small number of central bankers. The current financial crisis has only one parallel- the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and subsequent Great Depression of the 1930s, which crippled the future of an entire generation and set the stage for the horrors of the Second World War. Samuel Johnson shortlisted & FT/Goldman Sachs WINNER- a vivid, dramatic account of the four men whose personal and professional actions led to the world economic collapse of the late 1920s.

Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed