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

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As President Obama began to unveil sweeping government programs to restore the crippled economy, the pubic and media drew numerous comparisons with the actions of Franklin Roosevelt, who faced the grim prospects of the Great Depression almost eighty years earlier. Now, Steven Fenberg tells the story...

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Main Author: Fenberg, Steven (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A and M University Press, [2011]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Jones, Jesse H. > (Jesse Holman), > 1874-1956.
Houston Endowment Inc. > History.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation > History.
Houston Endowment Inc.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Capitalists and financiers > Texas > Houston > Biography.
Philanthropists > Texas > Houston > Biography.
Houston (Tex.) > Biography.
Philanthropes > Texas > Houston > Biographies.
Capitalists and financiers.
Philanthropists.
Texas > Houston.
Biographies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The most powerful person in the nation
  • Houston
  • We had a good table (1650-1898)
  • The town pump (1898-1914)
  • The national stage
  • Give until it hurts (1914-1918)
  • The family won't discuss it (1919-1924)
  • Draped and drowned in decorations (1924-1928)
  • The Great Depression
  • Never rope a steer going downhill (1928-1932)
  • At the end of our string (1933)
  • Go directly to the RFC (1934)
  • Friendly, industrious, intelligent dollars (1935)
  • No actual ultimate cost (1936)
  • We are not going haywire (1937)
  • Spenders and lenders (1938)
  • World War II
  • An avalanche of orders (1939)
  • Just another loan (1940)
  • You'd better see Jesse (1941)
  • A material more precious than gold (1942)
  • Ask God to stop him from lying (1943)
  • Jump when the gong sounds (1944)
  • A very difficult letter to write (1945)
  • Home
  • It has grown out of bounds (1946-1956).