Secrets of the Temple
How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country
This ground-breaking best-seller reveals for the first time how the mighty and mysterious Federal Reserve operates -- and how it manipulated and transformed both the American economy and the world's during the last eight crucial years. Based on extensive interviews with all the major players, Secrets of the Temple takes us inside the government institution that is in some ways more secretive than the CIA and more powerful than the President or Congress.
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- Simon & Schuster |
- 800 pages |
- ISBN 9780671675561 |
- January 1989
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“The Nation May be the most important political book of the decade ”
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“The Nation May be the most important political book of the decade ”
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“Washington Post Book World Masterful...Monumental...A virtuoso investigative history. ”
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“The New York Times Book Review Breathtaking energy and research... ”
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“San Francisco Chronicle Review Spectacular...A superb, riveting narrative of the development of the U.S. political economy...An informative primer on the origins and nature of money ”
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“Columbia Journalism Review An awesome achievement...destined to rank as one of the half-dozen best dealing with the Reagan era...a splendid job of reporting...aggressive and insightful. ”
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“The Wall Street Journal A gripping portrait of American economic civilization...brilliant author...wonderful book... ”
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“Time Lucid and colorful...a historical and analytical work of impressive breadth and depth ”
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Chapter 1
THE CHOICE OF WALL STREET
In the American system, citizens were taught that the transfer of political power accompanied elections, formal events when citizens made orderly choices about who shall govern. Very few Americans, therefore, understood that the transfer of power might also occur, more subtly, without elections. Even the President did not seem to grasp this possibility, until too late. He would remain in office, surrounded still by the aura of presidential authority, but he was no longer fully in control of his government.
The American system depended upon deeper transactions than...
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