About the Author:
W. Michael Blumenthal was the United States Secretary of the Treasury in the Carter administration from 1977 to 1979. Born in Germany in 1926, he moved to the United States in 1947 and was educated at Berkeley and Princeton. He served as an Ambassador and Deputy Special Representative for trade negotiations under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, and was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Bendix and Burroughs (later Unisys) Corporations. He is currently the director of the Jewish Museum of Berlin, and is the author of The Invisible Wall: Germans and Jews. He splits his time between Princeton, New York, and Berlin.
Review:
“[A] perceptive man who would watch and report the changes of the 20th century...Blumenthal’s astute understanding of history allows him to ably demonstrate the significance of good leadership.
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- Kirkus Reviews
“W. Michael Blumenthal is one of the great Americans of the past century: a truly triple-threat leader in government, business, and the intellectual world. He has been near the center of the enormous historical transformations in each of those domains over the past eight decades, and his personal account of them is both deeply insightful and truly inspiring.”
- C. Fred Bergsten, Founding Director and Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
“Michael Blumenthal’s remarkable life has traced the 20th century’s major upheavals―from a harrowing escape from Nazi Germany, to resettlement in a Shanghai refugee ghetto, to a rise to the top ranks of corporate life and government service in an America redefining its world role. Now, the former Treasury Secretary has shared his story in a memoir that is both an engrossing personal narrative and a thoughtful reflection on leadership.”
- Henry A. Kissinger, author of On China
“An utterly absorbing account of German Jewry from the early 18th century to the Holocaust . . . a crisply written, personal, anecdotally rich history of a glorious and ultimately tragic community.”
- Praise for The Invisible Wall, Kirkus Reviews
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