Wriston

Wriston is the inside story of the man who delivered Citibank into the global arena - and brought it to the edge of the abyss. Wriston is the story of how one visionary rose to the top of a giant but sleepy First National City, later renamed Citibank, and set about reinventing not only his own institution, but much of banking and finance in the United States and the world. An apostle of free market economics, he challenged the wisdom of institutions from the White House and Congress to the Federal Reserve and other big banks. Sometimes winning, sometimes losing, he succeeded in…