Author Talk: Liaquat Ahamed — 1873 - with Steven R. Weisman

Author Liaquat Ahamed discusses their book "1873" at Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C.

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Lords of Finance, a magnificent and timely reckoning with the first truly global financial calamity and the famous banking family at the center of the whirlwind

1873 is a bird’s-eye reckoning with the full dimension of the crisis, from its buildup to its long aftermath. The Rothschilds and a cast of other witnesses give us the human perspective. And we have a brilliant financial historian’s grasp of the larger forces at play, resulting in a global narrative with thrilling explanatory power.

Liaquat Ahamed graduated with degrees in economics from Cambridge and Harvard, worked at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., and had a twenty-five career as a professional investment manager based in London and New York before turning to writing. His first book, Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World, about the lead up to the 1929 Great Depression, won the Pulitzer Prize for History, the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Gold Medal, and the Financial Times Best Business Book of the Year Award. He is a trustee of the Putnam Funds, an adviser to the Rock Creek Group, and the Chair of the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference. He lives in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. with his wife Meena.

Ahamed is in conversation with Steven R. Weisman, senior editorial adviser at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the leading economic policy think tank in Washington. Before joining PIIE in 2008, he was a correspondent, editor, and member of the editorial board at the New York Times. His last position at the Times was chief international economics correspondent. He is the author/editor of four books, including The Great Tax Wars: Lincoln to Wilson—How the Income Tax Transformed America (Simon and Schuster, 2002), which received the Hillman Prize for the book that most advances the cause of social justice.

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