Our finest hour : Will Clayton, the Marshall Plan, and the triumph of democracy

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Our finest hour : Will Clayton, the Marshall Plan, and the triumph of democracy

Gregory A. Fossedal

(Hoover Institution publication, 412)

Hoover Institution Press, 1993

  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-335) and index

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ISBN 9780817992019

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Leaving school and family at the age of fifteen, Clayton made a fortune as founder of the largest cotton brokerage firm in the world and became an outspoken and influential activist for improved government fiscal policies. In 1944, he was appointed by President Roosevelt to serve as assistant secretary of state for economic affairs, his passionate goal being to bring into existence a worldwide free economy.A businessman-statesman genius, Clayton is a forgotten titan of the Roosevelt and Truman administrations. Concerning Clayton's rejection, for family reasons, of a presidential appointment to serve as secretary of state, Fossedal writes, "He felt he had contributed his talents to the nation's war effort and was content with his place in history. In fact, he was one of the few men who served in Washington, D.C., in those critical years who did not write his memoirs or cultivate a biographer . This book is meant to be Will Clayton's memoirs.""
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: pbk ISBN 9780817992026

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William L. Clayton was "the principal architect of American post-war foreign economic policy" (Newsweek), yet his seminal contributions to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the Marshall Plan, and the Truman Doctrine have been largely ignored over the past four decades. This gap in the story of free-world cooperation is filled by Gregory Fossedal's vivid biography.

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