# Prof. William Silber's forthcoming book, "Volcker: The Triumph of Persistence," is on award longlist

1 Faculty News August 8, 2012 ![Financial Times logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_025700.jpg?itok=LSPbU2V1)>

Excerpt from [Financial Times](http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/0a64ca24-dbf7-11e1-86f8-00144feab49a.html#axzz22zDfyHC0) -- "[William Silber](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/william-silber)’s forthcoming biography of former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker sits alongside Walter Isaacson’s life of the late Apple chief executive Steve Jobs."

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