The Battle Of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, And The Making Of A New World Order (Council On Foreign Relations Books (Princeton University Press))

Upending the conventional wisdom that Bretton Woods was the product of an amiable Anglo-American collaboration, Steil shows that it was in reality part of a much more ambitious geopolitical agenda hatched within President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Treasury and aimed at eliminating Britain as an economic and political rival. At the heart of the drama were the antipodal characters of John Maynard Keynes, the renowned and revolutionary British economist, and Harry Dexter White, the dogged, self-made American technocrat. Bringing to bear new and striking archival evidence, Steil offers the most compelling portrait yet of the complex and controversial figure of White--the architect of the dollar's privileged place in the Bretton Woods monetary system, who also, very privately, admired Soviet economic planning and engaged in clandestine communications with Soviet intelligence officials and agents over many years. --

• | Author: Benn Steil
• | Publisher: Princeton University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 23, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 480 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0691162379
• | ISBN-13: 9780691162379