"Lords of Finance" by Liaquat Ahamed

OK, after reading four summaries of the book and the book itself, I am still not sure what it is about. The book is so dry, and all the finance people look so much alike that I couldn't retain anything from the story.

Something-something, gold standard, something-something, great depression, something-something white dudes deciding to screw everybody because they stole all the money, something-something WWII. There's Hitler, Churchill, Roosevelt, and others. The whole gang, yet the story is so dry you can't keep track of who's who.

I'm not exactly sure why this book won the Pulitzer, but I guess this is a critical piece of journalistic work on the financial world. It's me who's bored by all these mundane details, even though presented as a thick history study book.

What are we trying to learn from "Lords of Finance?" What does the author try to teach us? Maybe that giving all the financial power to a bunch of white dudes is bad.

Well, thank you, we knew that. There's just one issue: can't do nothing about it.