Chapter 1 Introducing the Book

Chapter 2 Growing Pains: Being Born after Panic and Experiencing Childhood in the Great Depression—December 1913–August 1935

Chapter 3 Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Splitting from the Treasury in Adolescence and Maturing More—September 1935–January 1970

Chapter 4 Suffering Mid-Life Crises: Confronting Severe Inflation and Financial Meltdown in Adulthood—February 1970–January 2014

Chapter 5 Understanding the Basics from a Contemporary Perspective

Chapter 6 Saying Oops after Assuming the Chairmanship

Chapter 7 Imagining Financial Armageddon, Making Emergency Loans in the Crisis, and Pursuing QE1

Chapter 9 Reaching for QE3 and Then Postponing Tapering

Chapter 10 Taxing and Spending: Taking a Closer Look at Fiscal Policymaking and Communication

Chapter 11 Strengthening Financial Regulations

Chapter 12 Prosecuting the Guilty, Revealing Crisis Lending, and Endangering Fed Independence

Chapter 13 Experiencing Deflation or Disinflation around the World

Chapter 14 Concluding the Book