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Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country

by William Greider

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Publisher Comments:

This ground-breaking best-seller reveals for the first time how the mighty and mysterious Federal Reserve operates — and how it manipulated and transformed both the American economy and the world's during the last eight crucial years. Based on extensive interviews with all the major players, Secrets of the Temple takes us inside the government institution that is in some ways more secretive than the CIA and more powerful than the President or Congress.

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The Wall Street JournalA gripping portrait of American economic civilization...brilliant author...wonderful book...

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Washington Post Book WorldMasterful...Monumental...A virtuoso investigative history.

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The New York Times Book ReviewBreathtaking energy and research...

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TimeLucid and colorful...a historical and analytical work of impressive breadth and depth

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'Time

Lucid and colorful...a historical and analytical work of impressive breadth and depth

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The NationMay be the most important political book of the decade

Synopsis:

This ground-breaking best-seller reveals for the first time how the mighty and mysterious Federal Reserve operates — and how it manipulated and transformed both the American economy and the world's during the last eight crucial years. Based on extensive interviews with all the major players, Secrets of the Temple takes us inside the government institution that is in some ways more secretive than the CIA and more powerful than the President or Congress.

About the Author

William Greider is the bestselling author of five previous books, including One World, Ready or Not (on the global economy), Who Will Tell the People (on American politics), and Secrets of the Temple (on the Federal Reserve). A reporter for forty years, he has written for The Washington Post and Rolling Stone and has been an on-air correspondent for six Frontline documentaries on PBS. Currently the national affairs correspondent for The Nation, he lives in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

CONTENTS

PART ONE: SECRETS OF THE TEMPLE

1. The Choice of Wall Street

2. In the Temple

3. A Pact with the Devil

4. Behavior Modification

5. The Liberal Apology

6. The Roller Coaster

PART TWO: THE MONEY QUESTION

7. The God Almighty Dollar

8. Democratic Money

9. The Great Compromise

10. Leaning Against the Wind

PART THREE: THE LIQUIDATION

11. A Car with Two Drivers

12. That Old-Time Religion

13. Slaughter of the Innocents

14. The Turn

PART FOUR: THE RESTORATION OF CAPITAL

15. A Game of Chicken

16. Winners and Losers

17. "Morning Again in America"

18. The Triumph of Money

Appendices

Reference Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Product Details

ISBN:
9780671675561
Subtitle:
How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
Author:
Greider, William
Author:
Greider, William
Publisher:
Touchstone Books
Subject:
General
Subject:
History
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Banks & Banking
Subject:
Finance
Subject:
Economic Policy
Subject:
Federal reserve board
Subject:
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve Sys
Subject:
General Business & Economics
Subject:
Federal reserve banks
Copyright:
Edition Description:
Trade paper
Publication Date:
January 1989
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
798
Dimensions:
932x617x185 189

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