Maestro: Alan Greenspan And The American EconomyWho is responsible? From the President to the Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan to Wall Street to the role of the emerging technologies, Woodward uses his exhaustive investigative technique to reveal the ideas and politics that have changed the lives of millions of people and established the United States as the world's preeminent power. He shows why America has found itself in this exalted position. How it might have been different and when and why it might end. |
Contents
Preface | 13 |
Chapter | 15 |
Chapter 1 | 127 |
Epilogue | 226 |
Glossary | 245 |
Chapter 3 | 254 |
Chapter 6 | 262 |
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Acknowledgments | 270 |
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