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    The Fifteen Weeks (February 21 - June 5, 1947)
    The Fifteen Weeks (February 21 - June 5, 1947)
    The Fifteen Weeks (February 21 - June 5, 1947)
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    The Fifteen Weeks (February 21 - June 5, 1947)

    By Joseph M. Jones

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    A DRAMATIC AND REVEALING ACCOUNT, FROM INSIDE THE GOVERNMENT, OF THE MOMENTOUS DAYS IN WHICH AMERICA ASSUMED THE RESPONSIBILITY OF WORLD LEADERSHIP.

    First published in 1955, Joseph M. Jones’ memoirs The Fifteen Weeks chronicle his role in the development of the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan.

    “The fifteen weeks which form the title and subject of this book comprise the period in 1947 when the United States stepped out irrevocably and wholeheartedly as leader upon the world stage....

    “The greatness of a nation, like the greatness of an individual, is in the last analysis a mystery. We do not know why at one time immense exertions and far-reaching vision are more prevalent than at others. Yet to look within, to account for the obvious factors in the situation is highly useful. That function is performed in a book which for readability and for responsible narration would be hard to surpass.”—August Heckscher in the New York Herald Tribune.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcole Publishing
    Release dateDec 1, 2018
    ISBN9781789125337
    The Fifteen Weeks (February 21 - June 5, 1947)
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    Joseph M. Jones

    Joseph Marion Jones (1908-1990) was an economist and former Government official. Born on October 29, 1908 in Lockhart, Texas, Jones received a bachelor’s degree from Baylor University and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. He was an associate editor of Fortune magazine from 1943-1946. He was an economist with the United States Tariff Commission and served as a special assistant in foreign aid programs at the U.S. State Department after World War II. As Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, he was responsible for drafting Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson’s speech before the Delta Council on May 8, 1947. After leaving the State Department in 1953, Dr. Jones was a research fellow at Yale University, a special assistant to Gov. W. Averell Harriman of New York from 1955-1959, and a consultant to the Lasker Foundation. He was the author of five books, including The Fifteen Weeks, an account of the formation of the Marshall Plan that played a central role in the economic recovery of Western Europe, and Tariff Retaliation, which dealt with repercussions in world trade from the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act of 1930. He retired to Florida in 1967 and lectured at the University of Miami until 1978, when he returned to the Washington area. Dr. Jones died in Arlington, Virginia on August 9, 1990, aged 81.

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