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Rauchway, Eric.
The money makers : how Roosevelt and Keynes ended the depression, defeated fascism, and secured a prosperous peace / Eric Rauchway.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-465-06156-3 (ebook) 1. United StatesEconomic policy19331945. 2. Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 18821945Influence. 3. Keynes, John Maynard, 18831946Influence. 4. United StatesEconomic conditions19181945. 5. United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference (1944 : Bretton Woods, N.H.) 6. Depressions1929United States. I. Title.
Yes, Im afraid Money is an irretrievably comic subject; but unfortunately it has to be treated seriously.
Dennis H. Robertson,
Citations from papers use the abbreviations B for Box and f for folder. Collections are listed alphabetically by abbreviation used. (Other works cited in the notes receive a full citation on their first appearance in a chapter.)
ABP | Arthur Ballantine papers, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, IA. |
ASP | Alexander Sachs papers, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY. |
AYP | Arthur Young papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, CA. |
BWP | Proceedings and Documents of the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, July 122, 1944, 2 vols., State Department (US). |
BWT | Bretton Woods Transcripts, edited by Kurt Schuler and Andrew Rosenberg, Center for Financial Stability, 2012. |
CJD | Celeste Jedel diary, RMP, B1f1. |
CPPC | Complete Presidential Press Conferences of Franklin D. Roosevelt, with an Introduction by Jonathan Daniels, 25 vols., Da Capo, 1972. Press conferences are cited as PC with number and date. |
CTP | Charles Taussig papers, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY. |
CW | Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes, 31 vols., Macmillan, St. Martins, for the Royal Economic Society, 19711989. |
DHRP | Documentary History of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidency, edited by George McJimsey, 47 vols., University Publications of America/LexisNexis, 20002010. |
DO | Dominions Office (UK) papers, The National Archives (TNA) at Kew. Cited using TNAs citation system. |
DRP | Dennis Robertson papers, Wren Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, UK. Cited using Trinitys citation system. |
ECUNMFC | Editorial Comment on the United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, bound document, Oscar Cox papers, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY, B129. |
EFGP | Edwin F. Gay papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, CA. |
EMOH | Eugene Meyer oral history, 1953. Columbia Oral History Collection. |
FMD | John Morton Blum, From the Morgenthau Diaries, 3 vols., Houghton Mifflin, 19591967. |
FRUS | Foreign Relations of the United States. State Department (US). |
GFWD | George F. Warren diary in GFWP. |
GFWP | George F. Warren papers, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Kroch Library, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. |
GHP | George Herron papers, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, CA. |
GSP | George Sokolsky papers, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, IA. |
HDWP | Harry Dexter White papers, Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ. |
HHCF | Herbert Hoover Clipping File on Bretton Woods in PPS, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, IA. |
HMJP | Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Papers, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, NY. |
HSUS | Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition, edited by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright. Cambridge University Press, 2006. |
JFNP | John Francis Neylan papers, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA. |
JMKP | John Maynard Keynes papers, Kings College Archive Centre, Cambridge, UK. Cited using Kingss citation system. |
JWD | James Warburg diary, as cited in JWOH. |
JWOH | James Warburg oral history, 1952. Columbia University Oral History Collection. |
LSP | Lewis Strauss papers, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, IA. |
MDM | Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Microfilm. For cited locations, four numbers are given; these represent book:page:series:reel. The Morgenthau diaries begin with the Farm Credit Administration diary, which is book 00. Series 1 is Depression and the New Deal, 19331939; series 2 is Prelude to War and War; series 3 is World War II and Postwar Planning. These are distinct from the two-reel collection of presidential diaries (see MPDM). |
MPDM | Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Presidential Diaries Microfilm. |
NBER | National Bureau of Economic Research; NBERWP = NBER Working Paper. |
PPA | Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, compiled by Samuel I. Rosenman, 5 vols., Random House, Macmillan, Harper & Bros., 19371945. |
PPI | Post-Presidential Individual file, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, IA. |
PPS | Post-Presidential Subject file, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, IA. |