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Early acquaintance, impressions of James B. Duke; purchase of Liggett and Myers, Continental Tobacco companies; War Industry Board, World War I; labor drafting; wheat sales to Russia; Duke's investments in textiles, chemicals (American Cyanamid), railroads; importance of Duke Endowment to South Carolina; creation of Duke University; impressions of Common Market.
“During his public years, approximately half of the nine decades of his active life, Bernard Baruch has served or advised many of the men who in that time have ruled the Western world... Baruch approves of his own ideas and achievements, but neither is it rancid, for the author, at ninety, cares less for self-vindication than for a rational and decent order among men. The spirit of that admirable objective informs his often anecdotal narrative of men and events, among them the administration of the War Industries Board, the Paris Conference of 1919, the adventures of the prosperous and the trials of the poor in the decade of the 1920’s, and some aspects of the New Deal, economic mobiliza...
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Essays and speeches written by Baruch reflect his experience in business and politics conferring with world leaders on matters of economics, atomic energy, preparation for and recovery from war; and other topics; consisting of 5 volumes documenting Baruch's speeches, publications, and other writings, recorded on 241 typescripts, carbons, memos, and printed pamphlets collected by Baruch and given in 1956 to his daughter, Belle Wilcox Baruch (d. 1964).
This biography of Bernard Baruch considered to be renowned as the definitive story about the notorious financial wizard and presidential advisor. Baruch's political policies are discussed briefly, and James Grant includes a detailed account of Baruch's trading and investment gains and losses.
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Vol. 2 published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. [1] My own story.--[2] The public years.