Liaquat Ahamed wins 2010 Pulitzer Prize

HISTORY: “Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World,” by Liaquat Ahamed

http://www.pulitzer.org/files/2010longlist.pdf

Long before the banking system buckled in 2008, Mr. Ahamed, a 57-year-old economist born in Kenya, was already examining the 1930s to see what lessons could be gleaned for our own era. His book, begun in 2004 and the first he has written, is, the award citation says, “a compelling account” of how four powerful central bankers “played crucial roles in triggering the Great Depression” with mistaken policies.

‘Lords of Finance’: Sunday Book Review | Books of The Times Review | Excerpt

Finalists: “Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City,” by Greg Grandin; “Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815,” by Gordon S. Wood.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/business/media/
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/116099-page.html

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