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(Paperback)

By: William L. Silber

ISBN: 9780691138763
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2008
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Traces Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo's triumph over a monetary crisis at the outbreak of World War I that threatened the United States with financial disaster. This title recreates the drama of America's battle for financial credibility.


(Paperback)

By: William L. Silber

ISBN: 9780691208695
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)

By: William L. Silber

ISBN: 9780691175386
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world, Texas oil baron Nelson Bunker Hunt, during the 1970s altered the course of American and world history.


(Paperback)

By: William L. Silber

ISBN: 9781620402924
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The biography of a true financial hero, Fed chairman Paul Volcker, who rescued America's financial system from collapse--based on complete access to Volcker's papers and candid firsthand testimony from Volcker himself.