Mr. Baruch

Plot

Story of Bernard M. Baruch, one of the most famous American financiers of the first half of the 20th century. Although he never held elective office, he was an advisor to six presidents. Bigoraphy covers all the imporatn aspects of his career.

Book reveals amazing facets of American history from just after the Civil War to NYC financial world at the turn of the century where Baruch made his millions, through all the organization of US resource for WWI, which he managed, the PEace Treaty talks for which he was an economic advisor, and the painful aftermath of its rejection, along with the League of Nations, by the U.S. dooming us all to WWII, when Baruch was also an influential. A fascinating study of economics, anti-semitism, and the condition of the South.