William Greider (1936–2019)
Author of Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
About the Author
Journalist William Harold Greider caught public attention in 1981 with an article he wrote for the Atlantic Monthly entitled The Education of David Stockman, about the initiation of then President Reagan's new director of the Office of Management and Budget. Greider documented Stockman's decline show more from optimism as he struggled to balance the federal budget while accommodating the president's fiscal plan to reduce income taxes and increase defense spending, which became known as "Reaganomics." Its depth of political analysis won Greider several awards. In 1982 the article was included in a book, The Education of David Stockman and Other Americans. William Harold Greider was born in 1936 and graduated from Princeton University in 1958. He is a columnist and the national affairs editor for Rolling Stone magazine. He has also written the books Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country (1988), The Trouble with Money: A Prescription for America's Financial Fever (1989), and Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy (1992). (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Image credit: via Alchetron
Works by William Greider
Associated Works
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic (1987) — Introduction, some editions — 2,934 copies
These United States: Original Essays by Leading American Writers on Their State within the Union by John Leonard (1995) — Contributor — 91 copies
The Case Against Free Trade: GATT, NAFTA, and the Globalization of Corporate Power (1993) — Contributor — 57 copies
The Company We Keep: Reinventing Small Business for People, Community, And Place (2005) — Foreword — 55 copies
Shaking the Foundations: 200 Years of Investigative Journalism in America (Nation Books) (2003) — Contributor — 45 copies
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Greider, William Harold
- Other names
- GREIDER, William Harold
GREIDER, William - Birthdate
- 1936-08-06
- Date of death
- 2019-12-25
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Place of death
- Washington, D.C., USA
- Places of residence
- Wyoming, Ohio, USA
- Education
- Princeton University
- Occupations
- journalist
- Organizations
- The Washington Post
Rolling Stone
The Nation
Louisville Times - Awards and honors
- George Polk Award
Members
Reviews
Lists
Awards
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
Statistics
- Works
- 11
- Also by
- 8
- Members
- 1,607
- Popularity
- #16,044
- Rating
- 4.3
- Reviews
- 11
- ISBNs
- 33
- Languages
- 4
- Favorited
- 5
Yet, miraculously, Greider somehow managed to craft a brilliantly readable book that leads you (safely!) through the mindboggeling minefield known as modern finance and central banking.
Some sections merit skim reading (specifically, the accounts of various Fed meetings, which were much too detailed for my liking), but Greider always leads the reader, without fail, to a wider, fascinating, well articulated explanation or argument.
If you want to understand how 'money' works in the modern America, 'Secrets' is a magnus opus that doesn't require an economic degree to decipher.… (more)