From exile to Washington
Subtitle: a memoir of leadership in the twentieth century
By: W. Michael Blumenthal
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9781468307290
Subjects: Politics and government; United States; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political; United States. Office of the Treasurer; Cabinet officers; Biography; History
Description: "Born in Weimar Germany, W. Michael Blumenthal grew up during the ascent of the Third Reich. He and his family fled from the Nazis to the other side of the world--first to Shanghai, then to America. There, he made a career in business and politics, as an adviser to President Kennedy and as the Secretary of the Treasury under President Carter. In 1997, after a half century as an American, he did what many German Jews would never consider: He returned to Berlin. In Full Circle, Blumenthal explains how his life experiences led him to reaccept his German homeland. He vividly describes his youth in Berlin during Nazi rule, his dramatic escape to Japanese occupied China, and the life he made in the United States. Whether as a professor of economics, a business leader, or a presidential adviser, Blumenthal has always been keenly attuned to current events. With the authority of an elder statesman, Blumenthal presents a compelling view of a new Germany--one that has been forced to confront its own dark past and become a world leader once again. "--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface --; title: The Thirties Germany in Trouble: In Nazi Berlin --; title: The Forties The War Years: Shanghai --; title: The Fifties Postwar USA: Apprenticeship Years --; title: The Sixties Washington --; title: The Seventies A World in Transition --; title: The Seventies II The Carter Years --; title: The Eighties Globalism --; title: The Nineties A New Germany --; title: Notes --; title: Acknowledgments --; title: Index.