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Who rules America? All the President's Bankers is a groundbreaking narrative of how an elite group of men transformed the American economy and government, dictated foreign and domestic policy and shaped world history. Culled from original presidential archival documents, All the President's Bankers delivers an explosive account of the hundred-year interdependence between the White House and Wall Street that transcends a simple analysis of money driving politics or greed driving bankers.

Prins ushers us into the intimate world of exclusive clubs, vacation spots and Ivy League universities that binds presidents and financiers. She unravels the multi-generational blood, intermarriage and protege relationships that have confined national influence to a privileged cluster of people who recycle their power through elected office and private channels in Washington, D. C.

All the President's Bankers sheds new light on pivotal historic events-such as why, after the Panic of 1907, America's dominant bankers convened to fashion the Federal Reserve System.