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))

by Benn Steil

Being left to the mercy of an all-powerful United States was intolerable, particularly as the U.S. government had been determined to show its people that American boys had not been sacrificed to perpetuate the moral abomination of empire.