Unprecedented power : Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the common good /

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Author / Creator:Fenberg, Steven.
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2011.
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 611 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11101221
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ISBN:9781603445719
1603445714
9781461952619
1461952611
1603444343
9781603444347
1299054048
9781299054042
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:As President Obama began to unveil sweeping government programs to restore the crippled economy, the public and media drew numerous comparisons with the actions of Franklin Roosevelt, who faced the grim prospects of the Great Depression almost eighty years earlier. 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. Jones-an entrepreneur with an eigh.
Other form:Print version: Fenberg, Steven. Unprecedented power. 1st ed. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2011

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505 0 |a Introduction : the most powerful person in the nation -- Houston: 1850-1898 : we had a good table ; 1898-1914 : the town pump -- The national stage: 1914-1918 : give until it hurts ; 1919-1924 : the family won't discuss it ; 1924-1928 : draped and drowned in decorations -- The Great Depression -- 1928-1932 : Never rope a steer going downhill ; 1933 : at the end of our string ; 1934 : go directly to the RFC ; 1935 : friendly, industrious, intelligent dollars ; 1936 : no actual ultimate cost ; 1937 : we are not going haywire ; 1938 : spenders and lenders -- World War II: 1939 : an avalanche of orders ; 1940 : just another loan ; 1941 : you'd better see Jesse ; 1942 : a material more precious than gold ; 1943 : ask God to stop him from lying ; 1944 : jump when the gong sounds ; 1945 : a very difficult letter to write -- Home: 1946-1956 : it has grown out of bounds. 
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