Charles Richard Morris (October 23, 1939 – December 13, 2021) was an American lawyer, banker, and author. He wrote fifteen books, and was a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic Monthly.
Books in order of publication:
A Rabble of Dead Money: The Great Crash and the Global Depression: 1929–1939 (2017)
Comeback: America’s New Economic Boom (2013)
The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution (2012)
The Sages: Warren Buffett, George Soros, Paul Volcker, and the Maelstrom of Markets (2009)
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown (2008)
The Surgeons: Life and Death in a Top Heart Center (2007)
The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy (2005)
Money, Greed, and Risk: Why Financial Crises and Crashes Happen (1999)
American Catholic: The Saints and Sinners Who Built America’s Most Powerful Church (1997)
The AARP: America’s Most Powerful Lobby and the Clash of Generations (1996)
Computer Wars: The Fall of IBM and the Future of Western Technology (1993, with Charles H. Ferguson)
The Coming Global Boom (1990)
Iron Destinies, Lost Opportunities: The Arms Race Between the United States and the Soviet Union, 1945–1987 (1988)
A Time of Passion: America, 1960–1980 (1985)
The Cost of Good Intentions: New York City and the Liberal Experiment (1981)
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