meanwhile, Fdr's close friend Harry Hopkins, who was critical of the pace of Ickes's programs, was put in charge of the Civil Works administration, an emergency relief program that oversaw the creation of four million new jobs.
In The Sphinx, Nicholas Wapshott recounts how an ambitious and resilient Roosevelt—nicknamed "the Sphinx" for his cunning, cryptic rapport with the press—devised and doggedly pursued a strategy to sway the American people to abandon ...
67 Ibid., p. 80. 68 Ibid., pp. 79–80. 69 F. A. Hayek in Commanding Heights, PBS, ... “The Economics of Leon Hirsch Keyserling,” Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 11, no. 4, Fall 1997, pp. 189–197. 15 Oral history interview with ...
Carter's approval rating in the polls continued to slide.2 Samuelson thought Carter had wished the bad economic news on himself. If he was to stand any chance of being reelected, the president needed to do something dramatic to break ...
And in the early weeks of campaigning , Reagan did little to disabuse voters of Carter's contention that he would be a liability in the White House . In August , Reagan almost ensured his own defeat by failing to curb his habit of ...
Can government fix a broken economy? Two great economists disagreed 80 years ago, and their debate dominates politics to this day.
My agent Kathy Robbins has been a constant source of encouragement and good advice. I am lucky to have had Bernadette Malone Serton as my editor at Sentinel. She was enormously enthusiastic about the idea of this book from the start and ...
Com uma escrita fluente e grande aptidão para tornar compreensíveis questões financeiras complexas, Nicholas Wapshott prestou um grande serviço à ciência económica, abrindo o assunto ao leitor comum, exposto sob o prisma de um dos ...
Cuando la crisis bursátil de 1929 sumió el mundo en un caos, dos economistas salieron a la palestra para defender visiones opuestas sobre cómo restaurar el equilibrio económico y devolver al mundo occidental a la senda del crecimiento.
Dalla Grande depressione alla Seconda guerra mondiale e dal dopoguerra al presente, Nicholas Wapshott, nel suo stile narrativo e con grande capacità di rendere comprensibili complesse questioni economico-finanziarie, riporta in vita gli ...
Da Grande Depressão à Segunda Guerra Mundial, e da recuperação do pós-guerra aos dias atuais, o veterano jornalista Nicholas Wapshott examina, neste Keynes x Hayek, os animados debates entre esses dois gigantes do século XX cujas ...
Carol Reed - director of thirty-four films, among them Odd Man Out, The Fallen Idol, Outcast of the Islands, Mutiny on the Bounty and, of course, the great postwar classic...
But just how close they really were will surprise you. Nicholas Wapshott finds that the Reagan-Thatcher relationship was much deeper than an alliance of mutual interests.
Can government fix a broken economy? Two great economists disagreed 80 years ago, and their debate dominates politics to this day. As the stock-market crash of 1929 plunged the world...
In The Sphinx, Nicholas Wapshott recounts how an ambitious and resilient Roosevelt—nicknamed "the Sphinx" for his cunning, cryptic rapport with the press—devised and doggedly pursued a strategy to sway the American people to abandon ...
Many books have been written about Keynes, but nobody else has told the story properly of his relationship with Hayek. [Wapshott] has filled the gap in splendid fashion, and I defy anybody--Keynesian, Hayekian, or uncommitted--to read his ...
A biography of the Irish-born actor follows his career in films and the theater, and provides a glimpse of his personal life
Details the private life and professional career of Carol Reed, documenting his childhood, his marriages, his working relationship with Graham Greene, and his films.
Carol Reed
The whole, complicated, troubled and triumphant story of a man who was once a Greek Cypriot fat boy, became an Eighties pin-up as the driving partner of WHAM , danced with Princess Diana, perfected the art of designer stubble-culture and, ...