Steven Fenberg

Broschiertes Buch

Unprecedented Power

Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good

Beschreibung

Steven Fenberg tells the story of Jesse Holman Jones, the Houston businessman who went to Washington as an appointed official and provided the pragmatic leadership that salvaged capitalism during the Great Depression and militarized industry in time to fight and win World War II.

Autor

Steven Fenberg is the award-winning author of Unprecedented Power, the definitive biography about Jesse Jones, who was reputedly throughout the Great Depression and World War II the most powerful person in the nation next to President Franklin Roosevelt. Fenberg was also the executive producer and co-wrote Brother, Can You Spare a Billion?, the Emmy-award winning documentary film about Jesse Jones narrated by Walter Cronkite and broadcast nationally on PBS. In addition to producing books and films, Fenberg writes articles, editorials and lectures, primarily about embracing and using the power of good government to address today's daunting challenges. He frequently uses Jesse Jones and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation--the New Deal agency Jones chaired that saved the US economy during the Great Depression and militarized industry expeditiously to fight and win WWII--as models for today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Texas A & M University Press
• Seitenzahl: 616
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 41mm
• Gewicht: 954g
• ISBN-13: 9781623491574
• ISBN-10: 1623491576
• Artikelnr.: 40082503