Word: tome
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...Schwartz should know. In 1963, she and Milton Friedman published the 888-page tome “A Monetary History of the United States.” In it, they argued that the Federal Reserve Board failed to prevent a succession of bank failures and, thus, failed to inspire confidence in the market in 1932 and 1933 because it lacked the “vigorous intellectual leadership” necessary to do so. Weak leadership did not overcome antagonism between the 10-year-old Fed and the New York Clearinghouse—a fate that could befall Geithner?...
...salesmanship, and a good deal of hubris. This is how four Texans rose from humble origins to become some of the richest businessmen in American history. Along the way The Big Four also helped facilitate the growth of U.S. industrialism, not to mention modern American conservative politics. In his tome on the Big Four - Roy Cullen, Clint Murchison, Sid Richardson and H.L. Hunt - Burroughs, author of Barbarians at the Gate, offers a Hollywood-worthy story that's equal parts political investigative journalism and dramatic family history. Think oil wells gushing black crude hundreds of feet in the air, the pitfalls...
...tale with well developed characters that seems boxed up and ready for the silver screen. It's impossible to read this book and not think of the 2007 film There Will Be Blood, which put the ruthless business of land rights and oil drilling into sharp focus. Burrough's tome, though, is broader and explores not just the greed, wealth and risk of early twentieth century American oil prospecting, but also what it meant for the rest of the country beyond Texas. Lyndon Johnson, Dwight D. Eisenhower and George W. Bush are just three of the politicians who found themselves...
...president, penniless and deathly ill in his final years, negotiated a deal with publisher Mark Twain to write the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, a two-volume set that is still considered one of the best presidential memoirs ever penned. In 1913, Theodore Roosevelt wrote another well-regarded tome (predictably, and straightforwardly, titled Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography). Harry Truman wrote his memoirs because he was broke, Herbert Hoover produced his in an attempt to improve his Depression-tarnished image, and it's been sort of downhill ever since, culminating in Bill Clinton's 1,000-plus page apologia...
Cheney, Dick • aggravation of that New York Times won a Pulitzer for exposing law-breaking championed by • Guantanamo is described as a "first-rate" facility by • score-settling tome is under consideration...