The Age of Turbulence: Adventures In A New World. by Greenspan, Alan - 2007

New York: The Penguin Press, 2007. First edition of the former Federal Reserve Chairman's memoir. Octavo, original boards, illustrated with photographs. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "For Dr. David Gottfried My best wishes Alan Greenspan." The recipient David Gottfried is the father of the global green building movement: founding the U.S. Green Building Council and World Green Building Councils. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Darren Haggar. The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan's incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with greater effect than any other single living figure. Following the arc of his remarkable life's journey through his more than eighteen-year tenure as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board to the present, in the second half of The Age of Turbulence Dr. Greenspan embarks on a magnificent tour d'horizon of the global economy. The distillation of a life's worth of wisdom and insight into an elegant expression of a coherent worldview, The Age of Turbulence will stand as Alan Greenspan's personal and intellectual legacy. "The most unexpectedly charming Washington insider memoir since Katharine Grahamas a decade ago" (Michael Kinsley, The New York Times Book Review).