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Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good
Steven Fenberg
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Hardcover. 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. Num Pages: 616 pages, ill. BIC Classification: HBTK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 152 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1076.
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 eighth- grade education who built Houston's tallest buildings of the ... Read more
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 eighth- grade education who built Houston's tallest buildings of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
616
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781603444347
SKU
V9781603444347
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