Roosevelt and Morgenthau
Subtitle: a revision and condensation of From the Morgenthau Diaries
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 686
Copyright date: 1970
Subjects: Morgenthau, Henry, 1891-1967.; Finance, Public -- United States -- History -- 1933-; Currency question -- United States.
Description: This further pruning and revision has been executed in the interest of the general reader, to provide a shorter edition centered more specifically upon the friendship and collaboration between Morgenthau and FDR, through the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War. Blum does venture some (largely positive) assessment of Morgenthau's career in his introduction and some generally accepted criticism (of Morgenthau's reluctance to embrace a Keynesian fiscal policy, of his Plan for Germany) in the body of the work. But essentially the emphases, insights, and conclusions are Morgenthau's, and the book closes with his reflections in 1966 about his years in government and what they had meant to him (he died in 1967). For a popular historical work, this is still a fairly dense accounting, with the political far outweighing the personal content. Reasonably accessible, nonetheless, and clearly a major secondary/primary source on the two men and the history they helped shape. - Kirkus Review.
Notes: "A revision and condensation of [the author's] From the Morgenthau diaries."
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Book one : Years of crisis, 1928-1938.; title: One of two of a kind : 1891-1932; title: The courage to experiment : 1932-1933; title: The dollar at home and abroad : 1934-1936; title: Statecraft for silver : 1933-1936; title: Essential spending : 1934-1937; title: Taxation : 1934-1937; title: Recession : 1937-1938; title: The Treasury and foreign affairs : 1937-1938; title: Book two : Years of urgency, 1938-1941.; title: Toward a good society, 1938-1939; title: In the gathering storm : 1938-1939; title: The "phony war" : 1939-1940; title: Disaster in Europe : April-June 1940; title: A balance of needs : June-November 1940; title: Lend-Lease : December 1940-October 1941; title: Defense economics : 1939-1941; title: In the glare of the Rising Sun : June 1940-December 1941; title: Book three : Years of war, 1941-1945.; title: Strains of war : 1941-1945; title: Financing the Grand Alliance : 1941-1944; title: Principles and expedients : 1942-1944; title: In the national interest : 1944-1945; title: The Morgenthau Plan : August-September 1944; title: The problem of Germany : 1944-1945; title: Epilogue : Harry S. Truman : April-July 1945