James Grant 2019 Bradley Prize Recipient

Financial Journalist and Historian
Founder and Editor, Grant’s Interest Rate Observer

James Grant, financial journalist and historian, is the founder and editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the investment markets. His book, The Forgotten Depression, 1921: the Crash that Cured Itself, a history of America’s last governmentally unmedicated business-cycle downturn, won the 2015 Hayek Prize of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. His new book, Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian, will be published in July.

Among his other books on finance and financial history are Bernard M. Baruch: The Adventures of a Wall Street Legend (Simon & Schuster, 1983); Money of the Mind (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1992); Minding Mr. Market (Farrar, Straus, 1993); The Trouble with Prosperity (Times Books, 1996); and Mr. Market Miscalculates (Axios Press, 2008).

Mr. Grant is also the author of a pair of political biographies: John Adams: Party of One (Farrar, Straus, 2005) and Mr. Speaker! The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed, the Man Who Broke the Filibuster (Simon & Schuster, 2011).

Mr. Grant’s television appearances include 60 Minutes; The Charlie Rose Show; CBS Evening News; and a 10-year stint on Wall Street Week. His journalism has appeared in a variety of periodicals, including The Wall Street Journal; Financial Times; Foreign Affairs; and The Claremont Review of Books. He contributed an essay to the Sixth Edition of Graham and Dodd's Security Analysis (McGraw-Hill, 2009).

Mr. Grant, a former Navy gunner's mate, is a Phi Beta Kappa alumnus of Indiana University. He earned a master's degree in international relations from Columbia University, began his career in journalism in 1972 at the Baltimore Sun, and joined the staff of Barron’s in 1975. Mr. Grant is a trustee of the New York Historical Society and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

 
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