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  • FDR’s Budgeteer and Manager-in-Chief
    Mordecai Lee
    First study of Harold D. Smith, FDR’s budget director from 1939 to 1945.In this book, Mordecai Lee provides a long-overdue examination of a key member of FDR’s administration. Harold D. Smith was FDR’s budget director from 1939 through to Roosevelt’s death in 1945. In that capacity, he was also the de facto manager-in-chief of the federal government. During his tenure, he refor...
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    50,53 €

  • See America
    Mordecai Lee
    The first history of the US Travel Bureau, which set the precedent for federal involvement in promoting tourism and travel, an activity which continues today.Created in 1937 by Interior Secretary Harold Ickes and given formal status by Congress in 1940, the US Travel Bureau played a seminal role by setting the precedent for federal involvement in tourism. Business, otherwise ho...
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    47,26 €

  • Get Things Moving!
    Mordecai Lee
    Recounts the forgotten but important work of Wayne Coy, the Office for Emergency Management’s Liaison Officer, during the early years of World War II.Shortly after Hitler’s armies invaded Western Europe in May of 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt activated a new agency within the Executive Office of the President called the Office for Emergency Management (OEM). The OEM went o...
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    49,33 €

  • Nixon’s Super-Secretaries
    Mordecai Lee
    The Watergate scandal of 1973 claimed many casualties, political and otherwise. Along with many personal reputations and careers, President Richard Nixon’s bold attempt to achieve a sweeping reorganization of the domestic portion of the executive branch was also pulled into the vortex.Now, Mordecai Lee examines Nixon’s reorganization, finding it notable for two reasons. First, ...
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    35,20 €