The President and the Oligarch: Greg Steinmetz on FDR’s Vendetta Against Andrew Mellon

Podcast: Keen On America · Andrew Keen

Opublikowano: 2026-10-07

The retired money manager Greg Steinmetz has now written three books about very rich men. The first, The Richest Man Who Ever Lived, was about the sixteenth-century Augsburg banker Jacob Fugger. The second, American Rascal, was about the nineteenth-century robber baron Jay Gould. The third, The President and the Oligarch, came out this week, and this time the rich man has a president as a co-star. It’s a book about the relationship between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Andrew W. Mellon. Mellon was the third richest American of his age, behind Rockefeller and Ford. He was, above al...