--- title: James Grant description: James Grant image: https://www.bradleyfdn.org/hubfs/Bradley%20Prize%20Winners/James%20Grant.jpg --- [![BFP-Logo-v2](https://www.bradleyfdn.org/hs-fs/hubfs/BFP-Logo-v2.png?width=341&height=102&name=BFP-Logo-v2.png) ](https://www.bradleyfdn.org/prizes-old) [![BFP-Logo-v2](https://www.bradleyfdn.org/hs-fs/hubfs/BFP-Logo-v2.png?width=341&height=102&name=BFP-Logo-v2.png "BFP-Logo-v2")](https://bradleyfdn.org) ![](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/4393151/mobile%20nav/white%20circle%20x.png) # Past Winners ![](https://www.bradleyfdn.org/hubfs/Bradley%20Prize%20Winners/James%20Grant.jpg) 2019 Winner # James Grant ##### 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.   [View Press Release](https://www.bradleyfdn.org/hubfs/Bradley%20Press%20Release/Grant%20Press%20Release_BradleyPrizes2019%20(1).pdf) ![BFP-Logo-v2](https://www.bradleyfdn.org/hs-fs/hubfs/BFP-Logo-v2.png?width=341&name=BFP-Logo-v2.png "BFP-Logo-v2") The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation [www.bradleyfdn.org](https://www.bradleyfdn.org) ©2023. Bradley Foundation. All rights reserved  | Terms of Use | [Privacy Statement](https://www.bradleyfdn.org/privacy-policy)