图书名称：All the Presidents' Bankers: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power
作者：Nomi Prins
出版社：Nation Books
页数：544
出版时间：2014
语言：English
格式：epub
内容简介：
Who rules America?

All the Presidents’ Bankers is a groundbreaking narrative of how an elite group of men transformed the American economy and government, dictated foreign and domestic policy, and shaped world history.

Culled from original presidential archival documents, All the Presidents’ Bankers delivers an explosive account of the hundred-year interdependence between the White House and Wall Street that transcends a simple analysis of money driving politics—or greed driving bankers.

Prins ushers us into the intimate world of exclusive clubs, vacation spots, and Ivy League universities that binds presidents and financiers. She unravels the multi-generational blood, intermarriage, and protégé relationships that have confined national influence to a privileged cluster of people. These families and individuals recycle their power through elected office and private channels in Washington, DC.

All the Presidents’ Bankers sheds new light on pivotal historic events—such as why, after the Panic of 1907, America’s dominant bankers convened to fashion the Federal Reserve System; how J. P. Morgan’s ambitions motivated President Wilson during World War I; how Chase and National City Bank chairmen worked secretly with President Roosevelt to rescue capitalism during the Great Depression while J.P. Morgan Jr. invited Roosevelt’s son yachting; and how American financiers collaborated with President Truman to construct the World Bank and IMF after World War II.

Prins divulges how, through the Cold War and Vietnam era, presidents and bankers pushed America’s superpower status and expansion abroad, while promoting broadly democratic values and social welfare at home. But from the 1970s, Wall Street’s rush to secure Middle East oil profits altered the nature of political-financial alliances. Bankers’ profit motive trumped heritage and allegiance to public service, while presidents lost control over the economy—as was dramatically evident in the financial crisis of 2008.

This unprecedented history of American power illuminates how the same financiers retained their authoritative position through history, swaying presidents regardless of party affiliation. All the Presidents’ Bankers explores the alarming global repercussions of a system lacking barriers between public office and private power. Prins leaves us with an ominous choice: either we break the alliances of the power elite, or they will break us.

作者简介：
Nomi Prins is a journalist, speaker, respected TV and radio commentator, and former Wall Street executive. Author of five other books, including Other People’s Money and It Takes a Pillage, her writing has been featured in the New York Times, Fortune, Mother Jones, the Guardian, the Nation, and other publications. She is a senior fellow at Demos.

Table of Contents
Cast of Main Characters
Preface
Introduction: When the President Needed the Bankers
Chapter 1: The Early 1910s: Post-Panic Creature and Party Posturing
Chapter 2: The Mid-1910s: Bankers Go to War
Chapter 3: The Late 1910s: Peace Treaties and Domestic Politics
Chapter 4: The 1920s: Political Isolationism, Financial Internationalism
Chapter 5: 1929: The Room at 23 Wall, Crash, and Big-Six Take
Chapter 6: The Early 1930s: Tenuous Times, Tax-Evading Titans
Chapter 7: The Mid- to Late 1930s: Policing Wall Street, World War II
Chapter 8: The Early to Mid-1940s: World War II, Bankers, and War Bucks
Chapter 9: The Late 1940s: World Reconstruction and Private Bankers
Chapter 10: The 1950s: Eisenhower’s Buds, Cold War, Hot Money
Chapter 11: The Early 1960s: “Go-Go” Youth, Murders, and Global Finance
Chapter 12: The Mid- to Late 1960s: Progressive Policies and Bankers’ Economy
Chapter 13: The Early to Mid-1970s: Corruption, Gold, Oil, and Bankruptcies
Chapter 14: The Late 1970s: Inflation, Hostages, and Bankers
Chapter 15: The Early to Mid-1980s: Free-Market Rules, Bankers Compete
Chapter 16: The Late 1980s: Third World Staggers, S&Ls Implode
Chapter 17: The Early to Mid-1990s: Killer Instinct, Bank Wars, and the Rise of Goldman Sachs
Chapter 18: The Late 1990s: Currency Crises and Glass-Steagall Demise
Chapter 19: The 2000s: Multiple Crises, the New Big Six, and Global Catastrophe
Glossary of Financial Terms




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