Ben Bernanke’s Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan
By Ethan Harris
Harvard Business Press $26.95 (£15.99)

Ben Bernanke’s appointment as chairman of the Federal Reserve was poorly timed. He had hardly got his feet under the desk before having to cope with possibly the most testing financial and economic crisis for nearly 30 years. Ethan Harris, author of Ben Bernanke’s Fed, an interim report on the new chairman, is in a position to sympathise.