Product Description: By the early 1900s, the Ottoman Empire was beginning to dissolve. Upon seeing this weakness, Germany set its own plans into action in the capital of Constantinople-to bring the vast Turkish Empire under its control. In this book, American statesman HENRY MORGENTHAU SR...read more

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Reproduces the daily diaries of Henry Morgenthau, Jr. which reflect his wide and varied interests: U.S. and international economics; government's responsibility to its citizens; social reform; preparations for war; and refugees and displaced persons, particularly European Jews.

A member of the fourth generation of an extraordinary American family discusses his father, FDR's treasury secretary; his grandfather, a businessman and diplomat; and his immigrant great-grandfather