The Money Makers: How Roosevelt and Keynes Ended the Depression, Defeated Fascism, and Secured a Prosperous Peace

by Eric Rauchway and E.J. Koh

Book Overview

Shortly after arriving in the White House in early 1933, Franklin Roosevelt took the United States off the gold standard. His opponents thought his decision unwise at best, and ruinous at worst. But they could not have been more wrong.

With The Money Makers, Eric Rauchway tells the absorbing story of how FDR and his advisors pulled the levers of monetary policy to save the domestic economy and propel the United States to unprecedented...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465049699
• ISBN13: 9780465049691
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.2" x 9.3"