Liaquat Ahamed Wins Pulitzer for 'Lords of Finance'

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The 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners were announced yesterday, and an investment manager won in the History category.  Liaquat Ahamed, director of Aspen Insurance Holdings, won for his book Lords of Finance, a compelling look back at the economics of World War I and the Great Depression that Janet Maslinm in a New York Times review, said  "easily connects the dots between the economic crises that rocked the world during the years his book covers and the fiscal emergencies that beset us today."

Ahamed made some of those connections in an interview last year in an interview with David Kurtz of Talking Points Memo:

You can also watch a longer talk from Ahamed at Johns Hopkins here.  


Posted 04-13-2010 9:14 AM by Graham Griffith
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