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Mr. Baruch Bernard Baruch Mr. Baruch
By Margaret L. Coit
2000/12 - Beard Books
1587980215 - Paperback - Reprint -  728 pp.
US$34.95

Bernard Baruch gave this Pulitzer Prize author free access to the vast collection of papers covering his career, making this book his definitive biography.

Publisher Comments

Category: Biographies & Memoirs

Mr. Baruch is the story of Bernard M. Baruch, one of the most famous American financiers of the first half of the 20th century. Although he never held elective office, he was an advisor to six presidents. This carefully researched biography covers all the important aspects of his career.

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Margaret Louise Coit graduated from the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in 1941, she worked as a journalist in Massachusetts and wrote a biography of John C. Calhoun which won the 1952 Pulitzer Prize. Coit also won the award of the National Council of Women in the United States for her second book Mr. Baruch.

Preface vi
Acknowledgments vii
Publisher's Note x
1. When the Redshirts Rode 1
2. Growing Up with New York 33
3. High Stakes and Big Plungers 62
4. The Golden Touch 84
5. Easy Money 108
6. School for Statecraft 131
7. "General Eye" 164
8. "Dr. Facts" 195
9. World to Win 223
10. Rehearsal for Disaster 250
11. Lost Horizon 277
12. The Baron of Hobcaw 313
13. Politics as Usual 339
14. The Age of the Great Depression 376
15. Elder Statesman 412
16. Too Luminous a Man 435
17. Watch on the Rhine 463
18. Partnership with Power 490
19. War from a Park Bench 521
20. From Cosmos to Chaos 552
21. Don't Let Them Take It Away 588
22. A Book of Reference 609
23. The Age of Crisis 630
24. South Carolina was Home 640
25. Mr. Baruch 668
Appendix 697
Bibliography
Index

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