Charles R. Morris

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

Awards

• 2009 Gerald Loeb Award in the business book category for:

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

Books

• 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^[1]

• The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center (2007)

Review, New York Times, October 28, 2007^[2]

• 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 ^[3]

Films

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

References

1. ^ "A Breast Bred on Wall Street". Business Week. 2009-04-17. http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_17/b4081125345847.htm. Retrieved 2010-01-13. 
2. ^ Chen, Pauline W. (October 28, 2007). "Heart and Soul". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/books/review/Chen-t.html?_r=1. Retrieved April 28, 2010. 
3. ^ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (July 24, 1980). "Books of The Times". The New York Times. http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F4081EFF355D11728DDDAD0A94DF405B8084F1D3. Retrieved April 28, 2010. 

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