"Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World" by Liaquat Ahamed

One of the best books that I have read in the past year is Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed. This book tells the story of the interaction among the world’s top four central bankers (from the United States, Britain, France, and Germany) and how they coped with the aftermath of World War I during the 1920s—and made policy mistakes that eventually led to the Great Depression. Ahamed is a great writer with an eye for the arresting story or vignette, but at the same time bases his work on impressive scholarly research.