Martin Mayer (1928–2019)
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Martin Mayer was an author, journalist and critic who wrote more than 40 books and hundreds of articles for laymen that demystified lawyers, banking, and thorny school problems. He started out as an old-time freelancer, writing 1,000 words a night. Then for a half-century, Mr. Mayer was a vis mere Renaissance man of letters, taking readers on behind-the-scene tours of Wall Street, Madison Avenue, the practice of law, and the tangles of a racially divisive New York City teachers strike. He wrote three novels; columns for Esquire magazine; was a music critic for a British journal; wrote for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, composed reports for the Ford, Carnegie and Kettering Foundations; and served on White House panels in the Kennedy and Reagan administrations. After graduating from Harvard he edited a scholarly labor publication, a pulp detective magazine and paperback Westerns. Landing at Esquire in 1951, he edited fiction, wrote articles and finished his first novel, "The Experts". Many of his books examined familiar professions and institutions, with titles like Madison Avenue, U.S.A. (1958), Wall Street: Men and Money (1960), The Schools (1961), The Lawyers (1967), About Television (1972), The Bankers (1974), The Builders: Houses, People, Neighborhoods, Governments, Money (1978) and The Diplomats (1983). Martin Prager Mayer was born in Manhattan on Jan. 14, 1928, the only child of Henry and Ruby (Prager) Mayer. In 1949, Mr. Mayer married Ellen Moers, an author and professor of literature. She died in 1979. In 1980, Mr. Mayer married Karin Lissakers, a Swedish-born writer and former State Department official who subsequently became the United States executive director of the International Monetary Fund. Martin Mayer passed away on August 1, 2019 at the age of 91 due to complications of Parkinson's disease. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Værker af Martin Mayer
The Fed: The Inside Story of How the World's Most Powerful Financial Institution Drives the Markets (2001) 91 eksemplarer
The Bankers: The Next Generation The New Worlds Money Credit Banking Electronic Age (1997) 77 eksemplarer
Nightmare on Wall Street: Salomon Brothers and the Corruption of the Marketplace (1993) 28 eksemplarer
Stealing the Market: How the Giant Brokerage Firms, With Help from the Sec, Stole the Stock Market from Investors (1992) 12 eksemplarer
The Judges: A Penetrating Exploration of American Courts and of the New Decisions--Hard Decisions--They Must Make for a… (2006) 9 eksemplarer
The teachers strike: New York, 1968 8 eksemplarer
Emory Buckner 4 eksemplarer
Social studies in American schools 1 eksemplar
Wall Street: Men & Money, 1 eksemplar
Liverpool: 1970s 1 eksemplar
Give yourself credit;: The art of borrowing, (The Dreyfus family money management service) (1972) 1 eksemplar
This is a School 1 eksemplar
Give yourself credit; the art of borrowing 1 eksemplar
Jazz M'en Fou 1 eksemplar
How Capitalism Survived the Twentieth Century 1 eksemplar
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- Mayer, Martin Prager
- Fødselsdato
- 1928-01-14
- Dødsdag
- 2019-08-01
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- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- New York, New York, USA
- Dødssted
- Shelter Island, Long Island, New York, USA
- Bopæl
- New York, New York, USA
- Uddannelse
- Harvard University (attended)
- Erhverv
- author
journalist
critic - Relationer
- Moers, Ellen (wife)
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- #30,825
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- 3.7
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- 52
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