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Alan Greenspan’s ‘unexpectedly charming’ memoir

Jun 23, 2026, 11:31am EDT
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The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World by Alan Greenspan.

The former US Fed chair died this week, aged 100. He advised presidents from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush.

This 2007 book was “the most unexpectedly charming Washington insider memoir” in a decade, according to The New York Times, both the life story of “a saxophone-playing math dweeb” and a detective tale about solving economic puzzles. Buy The Age of Turbulence from your local bookstore.

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