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

The youngest of seven children, Harry was born on October 29, 1892, four months after his father, Jacob, had become an American citizen. Jacob and his wife Sarah had come to the United States in 1885, part of the immigration wave of Lithuanian Jews escaping tsarist pogroms.