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In December 1974, a front-page story in the New York Times revealed the explosive details of illegal domestic spying by the Central Intelligence Agency.This included political surveillance, eavesdropping, detention, and interrogation.

\"The book gathers the personal reflections about what the author learned about central bank and monetary policy during the tumultuous five years (2008-2013) during which he served as governor of the Bank of Japan. Many books have been written about the global financial crisis by academics and influential policymakers, including central bank governors. This book focuses on the experience of the Japanese, which is deeply important. The issues covered range from the financial bubble, the financial crisis, deflation, the rapid aging of the population, and the experiences of Japan on the frontier of unconventional monetary policy (QE and forward guidance). But just focusing on analytics of monetary policy is too narrow. Various activities of the central bank-financial supervision, payment and settlement services, and crisis management in the event of severe natural disaster, such as the earthquake hitting Japan in 2011-are covered. The political economy aspect and governance issue of central banks-the role of unelected officials in a democratic society-are also intensively discussed.\"

To those who loved him, like Teddy Roosevelt, he was \"Nicholas Miraculous,\" the fabled educator who had a hand in everything; to those who did not, like Upton Sinclair, he was \"the intellectual leader of the American plutocracy,\" a champion of \"false and cruel ideals.\" Ezra Pound branded him \"one of the more loathsome figures\" of the age. Whether celebrated or despised, Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947) was undeniably an irresistible force who helped shape American history. With wit and irony, Michael Rosenthal traces Butler's rise to prominence as president of Columbia University, which he presided over for forty-four years and developed into one of the world's most distinguished institutions of research and teaching. Butler also won the Nobel Peace Prize and headed both the Carnegie Endowment and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, among innumerable other organizations. In 1920, he sought the Republican nomination for president, managing to garner more votes on the first ballot than the eventual winner, Warren Harding. Rosenthal's richly detailed, elegantly crafted narrative captures the mania and genius that propelled Butler to these extraordinary achievements and more. Thick with social, cultural, and political history,Nicholas Miraculousrecreates Butler's prodigious career and the dynamic age that nourished him.

Few North Carolinians have been as well known or as widely respected as William Friday (1920-2012). The former president of the University of North Carolina remained prominent in public affairs in the state and elsewhere throughout his life and ranked as one of the most important American university presidents of the post-World War II era. In the second edition of this comprehensive biography, William Link traces Friday's long and remarkable career and commemorates his legendary life.Friday's thirty years as president of the university, from 1956 to 1986, spanned the greatest period of growth for higher education in American history, and Friday played a crucial role in shaping the sixteen-campus UNC system during that time. Link also explores Friday's influential work on nationwide commissions, task forces, and nonprofits, and in the development of the National Humanities Center and the growth of Research Triangle Park.This second edition features a new introduction and epilogue to enrich the narrative, charting the later years of Friday's career and examining his legacy in North Carolina and nationwide.