2010 Pulitzer Prize – History Winner
Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World
Liaquat Ahamed
Argues that the stock market crash of 1929 and subsequent Depression occurred as a result of poor decisions on the part of four central bankers who jointly attempted to reconstruct international finance by reinstating the gold standard….
2010 Pulitzer Prize – History Shortlist
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Gordon S. Wood
