2009 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award winner

"Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed has won the 2009 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. The 'beautifully written' history of how central bankers' mistakes led to the Great Depression bowled over the judges and swept away a strong field of finalists to take the GBP30,000 prize. The prize was awarded on October 29 at a special dinner at London’s Victoria & Albert Museum"