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The Three Careers of Eugene Meyer by [by] Merlo J. Pusey is a biography available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Three Careers of Eugene Meyer about?
Even before Eugene Meyer bought a fading newspaper called the Washington Post ( in 1933) and built it into the institution it is today he had carved out enough nationally influential careers for several lifetimes. In this major life of a protean figure, the Pulitzer Prizewinning biographer Merlo Pusey tells Meyer's story, from the hectic Wall street days before World War I when he won and lost- and won fortunes in the development of the copper industry, through his term as a wartime policymaker in Washington, working closely with Bernard Baruch, to the postwar period when he organized the giant Allied Chemical Company and became (for a while simultaneously) governor of the Federal Reserve Board and chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation during the presidency of Herbert HOover, through his emergence as a great newspaper publisher
Who reads The Three Careers of Eugene Meyer?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- [by] Merlo J. Pusey
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
- Published
- 1974
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780394478975
- Category
- biography
- Subjects
- Economics, Finance, Memoir
- Rating
- 3.33 / 5 (3 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14