Charles R. Morris

Charles R. Morris (born 1940) is a lawyer, former banker, and author. He has written thirteen books, and is a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic Monthly.

Personal life

Morris is a Roman Catholic. Charles was the second of 4 children and grew up in New Jersey. He married Beverly and together they raised three children.[1]

Awards

Morris, Charles W. (2008). The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash. PublicAffairs. ISBN 1-58648-691-8.[2]

Books
  • A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929–1939 (2017)
  • Comeback: America's New Economic Boom (2013)
  • The First American Industrial Revolution: The Dawn of Innovation (2012)
  • The Sages: Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker, and the Maelstrom of Markets (2009)
  • The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown (2009)
  • The Trillion Dollar Meltdown (2008)
Reviewed in Business Week[3]
  • The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center (2007)
Review, The New York Times, October 28, 2007[4]
  • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy (2005)
  • American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church (1997)
  • The AARP: America's Most Powerful Lobby and the Clash of Generations (1996)
  • Money, Greed, and Risk: Why Financial Crises and Crashes Happen (1999)
  • Computer Wars: The Fall of IBM and the Future of Western Technology (1993)
  • The Coming Global Boom (1990)
  • Iron Destinies, Lost Opportunities: The Arms Race Between the United States and the Soviet Union, 1945-1987 (1988)
  • The Cost of Good Intentions: New York City and the Liberal Experiment (1981)
Reviewed in The New York Times, By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, July 24, 1980, Thursday [5]

Films

Morris appears in the 2010 Oscar-winning documentary film Inside Job.

gollark: I would dump it into SQLite and run queries on it, because I like SQLite.
gollark: I'm sure Intel *want* to make stuff themselves, but despite repeated promises have massively underdelivered and run behind.
gollark: (also, for Discord I use the browser version which can't read keys when its tab isn't selected, so this is still usefulish)
gollark: For non-Discord applications.
gollark: I wrote a python program to implement push to talk on Linux by (un)muting the microphone: https://github.com/osmarks/random-stuff/blob/master/ptt.py

References
  1. Morris, Charles (1997). American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church. New York City: Vintage Books. pp. x. ISBN 9780307797919.
  2. "Loeb Winners". UCLA Anderson School of Management. June 29, 2009. Archived from the original on February 2, 2019. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
  3. "A Beast Bred on Wall Street". Business Week. 2009-04-17. Retrieved 2010-01-13.
  4. Chen, Pauline W. (October 28, 2007). "Heart and Soul". The New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
  5. Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (July 24, 1980). "Books of The Times". The New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
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