Brother, can you spare a billion?
Subtitle: the story of Jesse H. Jones.
Contributors: PBS Online.
Publisher: PBS Online
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Alexandria, Va.]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Jones, Jesse H. 1874-1956.; Reconstruction Finance Corporation.; Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography.; New Deal, 1933-1939.
Genres: Biography.
Other titles: Story of Jesse H. Jones
Description: Companion to the PBS documentary on the life and work of Houston financier Jesse Jones. As a public official during the Roosevelt administration, he expanded and strengthened the role of the Red Cross, headed the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and was instrumental in the implementation of the New Deal and in the country's recovery from the Great Depression. Includes an interview with the producer, video clips, oral histories, a teacher's guide, and interactive map detailing the various local and regional RFC projects Jones sponsored.
Notes: Title from home page (viewed on August 4, 2003).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.