Greg Steinmetz

About The Author

Greg Steinmetz is a retired partner of a money management firm in New York. He previously worked for The Wall Street Journal, where he covered investment banking before becoming Berlin Bureau Chief and then London Bureau Chief. His first book, The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger, was heralded by Andrew Ross Sorkin as one of the best reads of 2015. The Wall Street Journal and Jim Cramer named his second book, American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune, as a top book of 2025.

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Books by Greg Steinmetz

The President and the Oligarch

Roosevelt, Mellon, and the Triumph of Big Government

By Greg Steinmetz

Why did one of our greatest presidents ruthlessly persecute one of the richest men in America?

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