Robert P. Bremner has held positions in the World Bank and the investment baking industry. He is a former small business owner and currently serves as a public trustee for a large mutual fund management company.
"Whatever your definition of a 'great american, ' Bill Martin meets
it. He passed effortlessly from floor broker on the NYSE to its
first professional paid president, became the only Wall Streeter to
enter the Army as a private in World War II, [helped] negotiate the
end of lend lease with Russia, created while Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, the document that established the independence of the
Federal Reserve System, then served 18 years as the Fed's Chairman,
playing tennis just about every day. A one-of-a-kind narrative."
Martin Mayer, author of The Fed: The Inside Story of How the World
s Most Powerful Financial Institution Drives the Markets
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Creation of the modern Federal Reserve System is, to a very
considerable extent, the work of William McChesney Martin, Jr.
Robert Bremner s book brings out the character, conviction,
courage, and collegiality that Martin brought to this historic
achievement. -Allan H Meltzer, author of A History of the Federal
Reserve and Professor of Political Economy, Carnegie Mellon
University
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" Creation of the modern Federal Reserve System is, to a very
considerable extent, the work of William McChesney Martin, Jr.
Robert Bremner's book brings out the character, conviction,
courage, and collegiality that Martin brought to this historic
achievement." -Allan H Meltzer, author of A History of the Federal
Reserve and Professor of Political Economy, Carnegie Mellon
University
"Creation of the modern Federal Reserve System is, to a very
considerable extent, the work of William McChesney Martin, Jr.
Robert Bremner's book brings out the character, conviction,
courage, and collegiality that Martin brought to this historic
achievement." -Allan H Meltzer, author of A History of the Federal
Reserve and Professor of Political Economy, Carnegie Mellon
University
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