Greenspan takes center stage in 'Age of Turbulence'

0 Comments | USA TODAY, September, 2007 | by Barbara Hagenbaugh

WASHINGTON -- Alan Greenspan has spent a lifetime writing speeches and papers on the economy.

But when it came time to write about his own life, the former Federal Reserve chairman says he hit a wall.

"I'm an introvert," Greenspan, 81, says, sitting in his expansive office in downtown Washington with a view of the Washington Monument Friday afternoon.

"I'm always an objective observer, standing off the stage, examining the play going on, but never on the stage," he says. "But they wanted me on the stage, which meant writing in the first person. And that was a struggle."

Greenspan plays the lead role in his book, The Age of Turbulence, out today and gives readers a look into a man everyone knows but few know a lot about. One million copies...