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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS: MY THIRTEEN YEARS WITH THE RFC (1932-1945), Jesse H. Jones with Edward Angly, hardcover with clipped dust jacket (original $6 price still visible), first edition, stated first printing, 1951. ITEM CONDITION: very good. The text block is in near fine condition with no tears, dog-ears, or marks. Lightly creased lower right hand corner. There is no bookplate or signature of a former owner. Not a library book or remainder. The green boards are in very good condition (bumped corners and spine). The dust jacket is in fair condition (crinkling and chipping along top and bottom edges, faded spine). 8 x 5 ½, 631 pages, 30 ounces. XX [from the inner flaps] $20 to a barber? From lending a Kentucky barber $20 to replace shears, strop, razor and soap washed away in an Ohio River flood, to putting up $200,000,000 to finance a single steel plant in wartime?that's the range of the far-flung work of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Here Jesse Jones, who was with the RFC for thirteen years and headed it for twelve, and his co-author, Edward Angly, tell the story of the work of an agency which was as colossal as it was controversial. When our economy tottered during the depression days, the RFC loaned and invested billions to rescue banks, railroads, real estate interests, mortgage and surety companies from ruin. It ladled out aid to cities and states, as well as loans to such self-liquidating projects as Al Smith's Jones Beach development and Herbert Hoover's San Francisco Bay Bridge. But it was not only the great enterprises and corporations which received help. Small businesses and individuals benefited too ? a Pasadena Negro received $500 for a remarkable self-help plan, and a drought-stricken woman got $20 to keep the wolf from her cabin door. World War Il gave the RFC its second big job. Jesse Jones tells of the almost unlimited powers granted the agency in June, 1940, and how it used them to stockpile scarce materials from milkweed to magnesium, to build a tin smelter and pipelines, and a $700,000,000 synthetic rubber industry, and finance countless other war enterprises. How, in short, its activities spread over the globe. Mr. Jones describes his encounters with businessmen, politicians and statesmen?the Morgans, Gianninis, and Reynoldses of banking, the Vanderbilts and Budds, Van Sweringens and Baldwins of railroading, the Ben Fairlesses, Eugene Graces and Tom Girdlers of steel, the Arthur Davises of aluminum, Henry Kaisers of shipbuilding?and other giants of American business. He writes of hardhitting deals and all-night sessions of busy leaders when great issues?and jobs for millions?were at stake, On the governmental level, he recalls many encounters when he did not see eye to eye with Roosevelt, Morgenthau, Ickes, or Henry Wallace.

Hardcover. xvi, 631p., very good condition lacking the jacket. Second printing. Jones chaired the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, a major New Deal and later war production arm of the US Government.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Fair. 5th printing. No dust jacket. Binding solid, pages lightly toned but crisp and clean, no markings found. Covers bright and shiny with light scuffs and dents. Extremities lightly bumped with minimal tip wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The Macmillan Company, 1951, 1951 (Fourth Printing 1951 stated). Condition: Very Good. Hardback, octavo, 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, xvi + 631 pages, VG+ to Near Fine in Good only dj. Binding square and tight, sharp corners. Text block clean and bright. Unclipped Dj . Illustrations in the text incl editorial cartoons, documents + numerous glossy 2-sided b&w plates scattered throughout. Appendices of lists, tables, documents + lengthy Index. A brief overview of the author and his role in the Resource Finance Corporation, the subject of this book, from Wikipedia: Jesse Holman Jones (April 5, 1874 - June 1, 1956) was an American Democratic politician and entrepreneur from Houston, Texas. Jones most important role was in the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) (1932-1939), a federal agency originally created in the Hoover administration which played a major role in combating the Great Depression and financing industrial expansion during World War II. After Hoover first appointed Jones to the board, President Franklin D. Roosevelt expanded the powers of the RFC and promoted Jones to the chairmanship in 1933. Jones was in charge of spending US$50 billion, especially in financing railways and building munitions factories. He served as the United States secretary of commerce from 1940 to 1945, a post he held concurrently with his chairmanship of the RFC.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. very good condition with a pen note and date as well as a rubber stamp mark on the first page.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. New York: The Macmillan Company 1st Edition, 5th printing (1951). Hardcover (Green cloth,Gray title on the spine, no dj). The Book is in an excellent (NearFine to Fine) condition. 8.5"x5.6"x1.4". be30301.

8vo. pp. Xvi, 631. few b/w illus. cloth (previous owner's signature on front free end-paper, faint stains on covers with some edge wear).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Dust jacket missing. First edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards have light shelf wear with scuffing and bumping at the corners. Binding is tight. Endpages have heavy age-toning. Page edges have heavy age-toning and foxing. Interior pages are unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Small octavo. 64pp. About fine in very good dust jacket with some chipping at the spine ends. Excerpts from newspapers about the state of the U.S. during the Great Depression. Very scarce in jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Preface by Calvin Coolidge. Near Fine in an about Good jacket, unclipped ($1.00), lightly toned and soiled, larger chips along the top edge. Red buckram with black ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A Depression-era book consisting of quotes from government officials, CEOs, economists, and other powerful people that attempt to downplay the severity of what would become the Great Depression. Angly's obituary in the New York Times mentions this work as "a small satirical anthology." In addition to his work here, Angly worked as a war correspondent and was one of the first to report on the attack on Pearl Harbor.