2010, ISBN: 9781586481100

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New York, NY: Franklin Watts, 1984. First edition. First printing [pstated]. Hardcover. Very good in good dust jacket. TLS by author laid in. DJ has some wear and soiling.. [12], 259, [… Mehr…

New York, NY: Franklin Watts, 1984. First edition. First printing [pstated]. Hardcover. Very good in good dust jacket. TLS by author laid in. DJ has some wear and soiling.. [12], 259, [1] p. Events, 1959-1975; Map of Vietnam; Further Reading. Index. From Wikipedia: "John Parsons Wheeler, III (December 14, 1944 c. December 30, 2010), known as Jack Wheeler, was a chairman of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, senior planner for Amtrak (1971 1972), official of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1978 1986), chief executive and CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving, consultant to the Mitre Corporation (2009 death), member of the Council on Foreign Relations along with Philip Lader(Evergreen International Aviation), and a presidential aide to the Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and George W. Bush administrations. He also held numerous other positions in the United States military, government, and corporations. John Parsons Wheeler, III, descended from a family of military professionals which included Joseph Wheeler, who had served as a general both in the Confederate Army, and later with the United States Army. Wheeler, III, was born in Laredo, Texas, where his mother, Janet Conly Wheeler, was staying with her mother while his father was in Europe. Five days after the delivery, the family received a telegram that his father was missing in action in the Battle of the Bulge. His father was later found to be alive. ]Wheeler was a member of the United States Military Academy class of 1966 which lost thirty of its members in the Vietnam War. After graduating from West Point, he was a fire control platoon leader at a MIM-14 Nike-Hercules base at Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, from 1966 to 1967. From 1967 to 1969 he was a graduate student at Harvard Business School spending the summer of 1968 as a systems analyst for the Office of Secretary of Defense in Washington, D.C. From 1969 to 1970, he served in a non-combat position at Long Binh in Vietnam. From 1970to 1971 he served on the General Staff at The Pentagon Wheeler's West Point and later years are featured prominently in Rick Atkinson's book, The Long Gray Line: The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966. After leaving the military he was a senior planner for Amtrak in 1971 and 1972. From 1972 to 1975 he attended law school at Yale University becoming a clerk for George E. MacKinnon in 1975 76 and an associate for Shea & Gardner in 1976 78. From 1978 to 1986 he was Assistant General Counsel, Special Counsel to Chairman, and Secretary, Securities and Exchange Commission. From 1979 to 1989, Wheeler was chairman of Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund that built the Vietnam Veterans Memorial which opened in 1982. Working with Jan Scruggs, he had supported the controversial Maya Lin design, which was opposed by Ross Perot and Jim Webb, who tried to oust him as chairman of the memorial. Wheeler worked to address their issues by adding The Three Soldiers sculpture by Frederick Hart to the memorial. In 1983, Carlton Sherwood ran a four-part series on WDVM-TV (now WUSA) "Vietnam Memorial: A Broken Promise? " which focused on Wheeler's handling of the Memorial Fund, claiming that most of the $9 million raised for the memorial was improperly accounted. Sherwood cast aspersions on Wheeler's career questioning his decision not to go directly to Vietnam out of West Point and noting he had been disciplined shortly after arriving in Vietnam in 1969 for "misappropriation" of government property. A General Accounting Office audit spurred by the television report cleared Wheeler. WMDV made an on-air apology and donated $50, 000 to the memorial. In 1984, Wheeler published a memoir, Touched with Fire: The Future of the Vietnam Generation. In the 1988 television film To Heal a Nation about the construction of the Vietnam Memorial, Wheeler was played by Marshall Colt, four years his junior and the former co-star with James Arness in the crime drama McClain's Law. Eric Roberts portrayed Jan Scruggs and Glynnis O'Connor, Becky Scruggs', Jan's wife. In 1988 89, Wheeler worked with George H.W. Bush to establish the Earth Conservation Corps. From 1997 to 2001, he was President and CEO, Deafness Research Foundation. He was consultant to acting Under., Franklin Watts, 1984, 2.75, New York: Public Affairs, c2003. First Edition. Third Printing. Hardcover. very good/very good. 25 cm, 401 pages, illus., notes, index. Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Inscribed by the author. DJ has slight wear and soiling. The U.S. official who spearheaded the fight to reclaim the stolen and confiscated assets of Holocaust survivors and other victims of World War II tells the inside story of that fight and how it was won. Stuart Eizenstat (born January 15, 1943) is an American diplomat and attorney. He served as the United States Ambassador to the European Union from 1993 to 1996 and as the United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001. He serves as a partner at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Covington & Burling and as a senior strategist at APCO Worldwide. From 1977 to 1981, he was President Jimmy Carter's Chief Domestic Policy Adviser, and Executive Director of the White House Domestic Policy Staff. In 1983, he wrote for Quarante magazine an article entitled, "The Quiet Revolution." He was the first to describe the "feminization of poverty." He was President Bill Clinton's Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (1999-2001), Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs (1997-1999), and also served as the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade at the International Trade Administration (ITA) from 1996 to 1997. In 1998, he organized the Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets, resulting in the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art. In the second half of the 1990s, Stuart Eizenstat was perhaps the most controversial U.S. foreign policy official in Europe. His mission had nothing to do with Russia, the Middle East, Yugoslavia, or any of the other hotspots of the day. Rather, Eizenstat's mission was to provide justice--albeit belated and imperfect justice--for the victims of World War II. Imperfect Justice is Eizenstat's account of how the Holocaust became a political and diplomatic battleground fifty years after the war's end, as the issues of dormant bank accounts, slave labor, confiscated property, looted art, and unpaid insurance policies convulsed Europe and America. He recounts the often heated negotiations with the Swiss, the Germans, the French, the Austrians, and various Jewish organizations, showing how these moral issues, shunted aside for so long, exposed wounds that had never healed and conflicts that had never been properly resolved. Though we will all continue to reckon with the crimes of World War II for a long time to come, Eizenstat's account shows that it is still possible to take positive steps in the service of justice., Public Affairs, 3<

2003, ISBN: 158648110X

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[EAN: 9781586481100], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Public Affairs, New York], HOLOCAUST, WWII, FORCED LABOR, CONFISCATIONS, JEWISH PROPERTY, GOLD, DRAI COMMISSION, MEL WEISS, INSCR… Mehr…

[EAN: 9781586481100], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Public Affairs, New York], HOLOCAUST, WWII, FORCED LABOR, CONFISCATIONS, JEWISH PROPERTY, GOLD, DRAI COMMISSION, MEL WEISS, INSCRIBED, EDGAR BRONFMAN, CLAIMS CONFERENCE, LLOYD CUTLER, EDWARD FAGAN, MICHAEL HAUSFELD, ALAN HEVESI, ISRAEL SINGER, ROBERT SWIFT, ROGER WITTEN, W, Jacket, 25 cm, 401 pages, illus., notes, index. Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Inscribed by the author. DJ has slight wear and soiling. The U.S. official who spearheaded the fight to reclaim the stolen and confiscated assets of Holocaust survivors and other victims of World War II tells the inside story of that fight and how it was won. Stuart Eizenstat (born January 15, 1943) is an American diplomat and attorney. He served as the United States Ambassador to the European Union from 1993 to 1996 and as the United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001. He serves as a partner at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Covington & Burling and as a senior strategist at APCO Worldwide. From 1977 to 1981, he was President Jimmy Carter's Chief Domestic Policy Adviser, and Executive Director of the White House Domestic Policy Staff. In 1983, he wrote for Quarante magazine an article entitled, "The Quiet Revolution." He was the first to describe the "feminization of poverty." He was President Bill Clinton's Deputy Secretary of the Treasury (1999-2001), Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs (1997-1999), and also served as the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade at the International Trade Administration (ITA) from 1996 to 1997. In 1998, he organized the Washington Conference on Holocaust Era Assets, resulting in the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art. In the second half of the 1990s, Stuart Eizenstat was perhaps the most controversial U.S. foreign policy official in Europe. His mission had nothing to do with Russia, the Middle East, Yugoslavia, or any of the other hotspots of the day. Rather, Eizenstat's mission was to provide justice--albeit belated and imperfect justice--for the victims of World War II. Imperfect Justice is Eizenstat's account of how the Holocaust became a political and diplomatic battleground fifty years after the war's end, as the issues of dormant bank accounts, slave labor, confiscated property, looted art, and unpaid insurance policies convulsed Europe and America. He recounts the often heated negotiations with the Swiss, the Germans, the French, the Austrians, and various Jewish organizations, showing how these moral issues, shunted aside for so long, exposed wounds that had never healed and conflicts that had never been properly resolved. Though we will all continue to reckon with the crimes of World War II for a long time to come, Eizenstat's account shows that it is still possible to take positive steps in the service of justice., Books<

2003, ISBN: 9781586481100

Gebundene Ausgabe

New York: Public Affairs, 2003. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 25 cm. xi, 401, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Some creasi… Mehr…

New York: Public Affairs, 2003. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 25 cm. xi, 401, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Some creasing to top edge front DJ. Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Bookplate signed by the author. Stuart Elliott "Stu" Eizenstat (born January 15, 1943) is an American diplomat and attorney. He served as the United States Ambassador to the European Union from 1993 to 1996 and as the United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001. For many years, he has served as a partner and Senior Counsel at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Covington & Burling and as a senior strategist at APCO Worldwide. From 1977 to 1981, he was President Jimmy Carter's Chief Domestic Policy Adviser, and Executive Director of the White House Domestic Policy Staff. He was Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs (1997-1999), and also served as the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade at the International Trade Administration (ITA) from 1996 to 1997. Derived from a Kirkus review: A former official in the Clinton administration chronicles the struggle to identify and retrieve Holocaust victims' financial assets and to determine how to compensate those the Nazis displaced, robbed, and used as slave labor. After a brief survey of the situation, the author launches into a lengthy account of all the negotiations, betrayals, surprises, personalities, venues, complications, and compromises that the settlements required. Eizenstat worked on several recovery efforts. The first was to extract from the Swiss banking industry a full accounting of their reluctance to locate and return assets of Jewish depositors. Eizenstat worked as well to locate stolen personal property. Then he became involved in the negotiations to compensate those forced into slave labor, which resulted in the establishment of a fund of ten billion Deutschmarks. He went after the Austrians and the French. Both cooperated and contributed large sums of money to settle. A compelling narrative of an important story., Public Affairs, 2003, 3<

2003, ISBN: 9781586481100

Gebundene Ausgabe

New York: Public Affairs, 2003. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 25 cm. xi, 401, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Some creasing to… Mehr…

New York: Public Affairs, 2003. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 25 cm. xi, 401, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Some creasing to top edge front DJ. Foreword by Elie Wiesel. Signed on the front endpaper by the author. Stuart Elliott "Stu" Eizenstat (born January 15, 1943) is an American diplomat and attorney. He served as the United States Ambassador to the European Union from 1993 to 1996 and as the United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from 1999 to 2001. He has served as a partner and Senior Counsel at the Washington, D.C.-based law firm Covington & Burling. From 1977 to 1981, he was President Jimmy Carter's Chief Domestic Policy Adviser, and Executive Director of the White House Domestic Policy Staff. He was Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs (1997-1999), and also served as the Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade at the International Trade Administration from 1996 to 1997. Derived from a Kirkus review: A former official in the Clinton administration chronicles the struggle to identify and retrieve Holocaust victims' financial assets and to determine how to compensate those the Nazis displaced, robbed, and used as slave labor. After a brief survey of the situation, the author launches into a lengthy account of all the negotiations, betrayals, surprises, personalities, venues, complications, and compromises that the settlements required. Eizenstat worked on several recovery efforts. The first was to extract from the Swiss banking industry a full accounting of their reluctance to locate and return assets of Jewish depositors. Eizenstat worked as well to locate stolen personal property. Then he became involved in the negotiations to compensate those forced into slave labor, which resulted in the establishment of a fund of ten billion Deutschmarks. He went after the Austrians and the French. Both cooperated and contributed large sums of money to settle. A compelling narrative of an important story., Public Affairs, 2003, 3<

2002, ISBN: 158648110X

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