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  • America's Bank

  • The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve
  • Auteur(s): Roger Lowenstein
  • Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
  • Durée: 9 h et 39 min
  • 4,5 out of 5 stars (4 évaluations)

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America's Bank

Auteur(s): Roger Lowenstein
Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
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A tour de force of historical reportage, America’s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America’s modern central bank, the Federal Reserve. Today, the Fed is the bedrock of the financial landscape, yet the fight to create it was so protracted and divisive that it seems a small miracle that it was ever established.

For nearly a century, America, alone among developed nations, refused to consider any central or organizing agency in its financial system. Americans’ mistrust of big government and of big banks - a legacy of the country’s Jeffersonian, small-government traditions - was so widespread that modernizing reform was deemed impossible. Each bank was left to stand on its own, with no central reserve or lender of last resort. The real-world consequences of this chaotic and provincial system were frequent financial panics, bank runs, money shortages, and depressions.

By the first decade of the 20th century, it had become plain that the outmoded banking system was ill equipped to finance America’s burgeoning industry. But political will for reform was lacking. It took an economic meltdown, a high-level tour of Europe, and - improbably - a conspiratorial effort by vilified captains of Wall Street to overcome popular resistance. Finally, in 1913, Congress conceived a federalist and quintessentially American solution to the conflict that had divided bankers, farmers, populists, and ordinary Americans, and enacted the landmark Federal Reserve Act.

Roger Lowenstein - acclaimed financial journalist and best-selling author of When Genius Failed and The End of Wall Street - tells the drama-laden story of how America created the Federal Reserve, thereby taking its first steps onto the world stage as a global financial power. America’s Bank showcases Lowenstein at his very finest: Illuminating complex financial and political issues with striking clarity, infusing the debates of our past with all the gripping immediacy of today, and painting unforgettable portraits of Gilded Age bankers, presidents, and politicians.

Lowenstein focuses on the four men at the heart of the struggle to create the Federal Reserve. These were Paul Warburg, a refined, German-born financier, recently relocated to New York, who was horrified by the primitive condition of America’s finances; Rhode Island’s Nelson W. Aldrich, the reigning power broker in the US Senate and an archetypal Gilded Age legislator; Carter Glass, the ambitious, if then little-known, Virginia congressman who chaired the House Banking Committee at a crucial moment of political transition; and President Woodrow Wilson, the academician-turned-progressive-politician who forced Glass to reconcile his deep-seated differences with bankers and accept the principle (anathema to southern Democrats) of federal control. Weaving together a raucous era in American politics with a storied financial crisis and intrigue at the highest levels of Washington and Wall Street, Lowenstein brings the beginnings of one of the country’s most crucial institutions to vivid and unforgettable life.

Listeners of this gripping historical narrative will wonder whether they’re listening about 100 years ago or the still-seething conflicts that mark our discussions of banking and politics today. 

©2015 Roger Lowenstein (P)2015 Penguin Audio

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“As Roger Lowenstein tells it in America’s Bank, an illuminating history of the Fed’s unlikely origin story, the central bank represented an ambitious - and not entirely successful - effort to resolve several long-standing tensions that lay at the heart of the American experiment in self-government: East Coast vs. the interior, urban sensibilities vs. rural ones, mercantile vs. agrarian interests, Wall Street vs. Main Street. It is still working out the kinks.” (Washington Post)

“The fun of the book - and its enduring value - lies in the rich details about the cranks, pawns and prophets who jousted with one another in the days of Teddy Roosevelt, William Taft and Woodrow Wilson.” (Forbes)

“Roger Lowenstein tells, vividly and compellingly...the remarkable tale of the politics, disagreements, decisions and crises that culminated in the Federal Reserve Act.... But Lowenstein, the author of several works on economics and finance, builds off it to describe the history of the era, the rise of the Progressive movement, the compromises and machinations that were critical to Congressional passage and the key figures in the drama of creating the Federal Reserve System.” (Robert Rubin, New York Times Book Review)

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Definitely keynsian propaganda, but worth a read!

This book is heavily leaning towards pro-Keynsian pro-central bank propaganda, but it's a very good read to hear about the history of how the Federal Reserve came to be.

I'm a bitcoiner, so I'm very interested in economics, money and the history of money.

I've read a lot of political financial books like Currency Wars, a lot of trading books, etc.

Many people don't know that the Federal Reserve is a private bank. It's not part of the US government, and US dollars are not backed by gold.

I wanted to learn the history of how the Federal Reserve came to be.

This is the political story of money in America after the civil war up to when the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 was signed.

I don't agree with everything in the book, but if you're interested in the history of money, it's a must read.

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