Eliot Vestner

Eliot Vestner is an avid student of American history who took up historical writing late in life. He has been a lawyer and government official serving as New York State Superintendent of Banks in 1975. After resigning from government he was a senior officer of Irving Trust Company in New York and later Bank of Boston. Since his retirement in 2000, he has published two books on American history: Meet Me Under the Clock at Grand Central (2010) and Ragtime in the White House (2020). His most recent book, Ragtime in the White House, describes the racist challenge to the presidency under William McKinley at the turn of the century.