The Battle of Bretton Woods: John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order

by Benn Steil,
Tulsa World, April 21, 2013

In the spring of 1941, the British economist John Maynard Keynes was briefed on the American personalities he would face in meetings in New York and Washington about the provisions of the Lend Lease bill to help Great Britain fight the Nazis.