I’ve been reading a succession of long biographies of influential Americans. The US election result prompted me to read biographies of the four presidents from Eisenhower to Nixon – one president with no prior experience in elected office, and three very flawed individuals – and in the middle of all that I read (to review) Sebastian Mallaby’s big new biography of Alan Greenspan, The Man Who Knew. There is some overlap: Greenspan played a role in Nixon’s 1968 election campaign – in domestic policy, and in doing polling analysis (his economic consultancy/forecasting firm had just acquired its first computer) – and Greenspan was nominated to his first official government job, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, in the last days of the Nixon administration.
I’d strongly recommend the Greenspan book. It is well-written, deeply-researched (the author notes that one of his research assistants read the full transcripts of every FOMC…
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