willard thorp editor (6 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Very Good.

Paperback. Condición: Good.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. Second Edition. Slight mark from water stain , no damage to text.

Paperback. Condición: Good.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. ix, [3], 356 pages. Ex-library with the usual library markings. Part of DJ pasted to fep. Cover has some wear and soiling. Willard Long Thorp (1899?1992) was an economist and academic who served three US Presidents, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower as an advisor in both domestic and foreign affairs. He helped draft the Marshall Plan and was also prominent in business and education. He was Assistant Secretary of State under Truman for Economic Affairs 1946?1952; A Member of the U.S. delegation serving as special adviser on economic matters at the Paris Peace Conference of 1946; special adviser on economic matters at the New York meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers in 1946; and American representative to the United Nations General Assembly,1947?48. He came under great strain during the McCarthy 'witch-hunt' investigations into alleged Communists 1950?1954 and eventually resigned, becoming a professor at Amherst College again instead. The lives of these eighteen Princetonians have been written by twenty others from Princeton, graduates, sometime student sin the Graduate School, past and present members of the Faculty. The eighteen are: William Paterson, Samuel Kirkland, Benjamin Rush, Samuel Stanhope Smith, Henry Lee, James Madison, Philip Lindsley, George Mifflin Dallas, Charles Hodge, Parke Goodwin, John Sharpensten Hager, Francis Preston Blair, Jr., Joseph Henry, Woodrow Wilson, Paul Elmer More, David Graham Phillips, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Among the contributors was Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker.

Hardcover. Condición: As New.