Watching Greenspan Grow

Abstract

For those seeking a personal portrait of America’s maximum economic policymaker, Justin Martin’s biography will be hard to improve on. Informed and sympathetic, Martin traces the webs of Alan Greenspan’s personal and professional lives: his early days in jazz and Objectivism, his roots as an economist in the Conference Board and old-style business cycle studies of Arthur Burns, his ties to five Presidents and his liaisons and enduring friendships with interesting, intelligent, attractive and loyal women.

Greenspan: the Man Behind Money, by Justin Martin (Cambridge: Perseus Publishing, 2000)

Maestro: Greenspan’s Fed and the American Boom, by Bob Woodward (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000)