Chairman of the Fed: William McChesney Martin, Jr., and the Creation of the Modern American Financial System Book

Contents

Introduction: Who Was Bill Martin?....................1
1 A Family of Substance: The Early Years....................7
2 Into the Maelstrom: Wall Street in the 1930s....................17
3 Cleaning the Augean Stables of Capitalism: The New York Stock Exchange Presidency....................35
4 From President to Private and Back Again: World War II and the Export-Import Bank Years....................52
5 From Crisis to Crisis: The Truman Administration and the Fed....................68
6 By Fits and Starts: The Early Eisenhower Years....................93
7 Trying to Manage Prosperity: The Late Eisenhower Years....................120
8 Gunfight on the New Frontier: The Kennedy Years....................149
9 Sowing the Wind: The Early Johnson Years....................186
10 Reaping the Whirlwind: The Late Johnson Years....................227
11 Passing the Torch: The Nixon Administration....................260
12 The Public Private Citizen: Retirement....................279
Epilogue: Bill Martin's Legacy....................294
Appendix: Selected Economic Statistics of the Martin Era at the Fed....................301
List of Abbreviations....................307
Notes....................309
Acknowledgments....................345
Index....................347
Photographs follow page....................148