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'''Charles Richard Morris''' (October 23, 1939 – December 13, 2021) was an American lawyer, banker, and author. He wrote thirteen books, and was a regular contributor to the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', and ''[[The Atlantic Monthly]]''.
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Charles Richard Morris (October 23, 1939 – December 13, 2021) was an American lawyer, banker, and author. He wrote thirteen books, and was a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic Monthly.
Personal life
Morris, a Roman Catholic, was born in Oakland, California, the second of four children, and grew up in New Jersey.[1] He was married to Beverly Gilligan Morris and they had three children.[1][2]
Morris died from dementia in Hampton, New Hampshire, on December 13, 2021, at age 82, the same day as one of his siblings.[1]
Awards
- 2009 Gerald Loeb Award in the business book category for:
Morris, Charles R. (2008). The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the Great Credit Crash. PublicAffairs. ISBN 1-58648-691-8.[3]
Books
- A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929–1939 (2017)
- Comeback: America's New Economic Boom (2013)
- The First American Industrial Revolution: The Dawn of Innovation (2012)
- 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[4]
- The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center (2007)
- Review, The New York Times, October 28, 2007[5]
- 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 [6]
Films
Morris appears in the 2010 Oscar-winning documentary film Inside Job.
References
- ^ a b c Roberts, Sam (December 13, 2021). "Charles R. Morris, Iconoclastic Author on Economics, Dies at 82". The New York Times. Retrieved December 13, 2021.
- ^ Morris, Charles (1997). American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America's Most Powerful Church. New York City: Vintage Books. pp. x. ISBN 9780307797919.
- ^ "Loeb Winners". UCLA Anderson School of Management. June 29, 2009. Archived from the original on February 2, 2019. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- ^ "A Beast Bred on Wall Street". Business Week. April 17, 2009. Retrieved January 13, 2010.
- ^ Chen, Pauline W. (October 28, 2007). "Heart and Soul". The New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
- ^ Lehmann-Haupt, Christopher (July 24, 1980). "Books of The Times". The New York Times. Retrieved April 28, 2010.
- 1939 births
- 2021 deaths
- 20th-century American businesspeople
- 20th-century American lawyers
- 20th-century American writers
- 20th-century Roman Catholics
- 21st-century American businesspeople
- 21st-century American lawyers
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century Roman Catholics
- American Roman Catholics
- American bankers
- American economics writers
- Deaths from dementia
- Economic historians
- Gerald Loeb Award winners for Business Books
- Historians from New Jersey
- Neurological disease deaths in New Hampshire
- New York (state) lawyers
- People from Oakland, California