Roger Lowenstein
Financial journalist and writer
Roger Lowenstein is an American financial journalist and writer who spent more than a decade reporting for The Wall Street Journal. He has written books on finance, the Federal Reserve and Civil War funding.
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American Born 1954 in the United States
About Roger Lowenstein
Born in 1954, Roger Lowenstein graduated from Cornell University and went on to report for The Wall Street Journal. He wrote its Heard on the Street column from 1989 to 1991. He has also contributed to the New York Times Magazine and Fortune. Lowenstein has been a director of Sequoia Fund, and he joined the board of trustees of Lesley University in 2016. His books include America’s Bank, a 2015 book about the struggle to create the Federal Reserve, as well as Buffett and When Genius Failed. Ways and Means, his 2022 book on how Lincoln and his cabinet paid for the Civil War, won the 2022 Harold Holzer Lincoln Forum Book Prize.