Eugene Meyer

Eugene Meyer by Merlo J. Pusey. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780394478975.

Even before Eugene Meyer bought a fading newspaper called the Washington Post ( in 1933) and built it into the institution it is today he had carved out enough nationally influential careers for several lifetimes. In this major life of a protean figure, the Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer Merlo Pusey tells Meyers story, from the hectic Wall street days before World War I when he won and lost- and won fortunes in the development of the copper industry, through his term as a wartime policymaker in Washington, working closely with Bernard Baruch, to the postwar period when he organized the giant Allied Chemical Company and became (for a while simultaneously) governor of the Federal Reserve Board and chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation during the presidency of Herbert HOover, through his emergence as a great newspaper publisher