Roger Lowenstein, Author . Penguin Press $24.95 (270p) ISBN 978-1-59420-003-8
Well-known financial journalist Lowenstein (Buffett
; When Genius Failed
) sets out to explain the stock market crash of 2000 and the ensuing corporate scandals. The ingredients are familiar: executive overcompensation and stock options,...
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Roger Lowenstein, Author . Penguin Press $25.95 (274p) ISBN 978-1-59420-167-7
America’s impending pension problem is brutally simple: private companies and governments have pledged to provide retirement income and health care for workers, but have not set aside the money to make good on their promises. Typical accounts...
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Roger Lowenstein, Author . Penguin Press $27.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-59420-239-1
Lowenstein (When Genius Failed
) offers an overview of the causes and consequences of the financial crisis that rises above the glut of similarly themed books with its juicy behind-the-scenes detail and thoughtful analysis. He sets out to prove that
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Roger Lowenstein, Author Random House Inc $27.5 (473p) ISBN 978-0-679-41584-8
By picking the right stocks and businesses to invest in, plainspoken Nebraskan Warren Buffett became the richest man in the U.S. In this excellent biography, Wall Street Journal reporter Lowenstein details the billionaire stock market wizard's...
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Roger Lowenstein, Author Random House (NY) $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-375-50317-7
In late September 1998, the New York Federal Reserve Bank invited a number of major Wall Street investment banks to enter a consortium to fund the multibillion-dollar bailout of a troubled hedge fund. No sooner was the $3.6-billion plan announced...
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Roger Lowenstein. Penguin, $29.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-5942-0549-1
This superb chronicle by Lowenstein (Buffet), a former Wall Street Journal reporter, traces the formation of America’s Federal Reserve. Lowenstein helpfully reminds readers that at the start of the 20th century, the U.S. was the world’s sole...
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Roger Lowenstein, Author, Michael McConnohie, Narrated by BBC Audiobooks $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-60283-438-5
Reports on pension insecurity, union battles and financial instability are unsettling stuff. Which makes it all the more worthwhile that Michael McConnohie reads Lowenstein's front-line report on pension squabbles in American urban outposts....
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Roger Lowenstein. Penguin Press, $30 (448p) ISBN 978-0-7352-2355-4
Journalist Lowenstein (The End of Wall Street) argues in this masterful history that the financing of the Civil War was as crucial to the shaping of American history as the Emancipation Proclamation and the defeat of the Confederacy. Adjusted for...
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