LITERATURE + LECTURES

Please join The Heritage Society for another in the Jerry & Marvy Finger Lecture Series. Thursday, June 21, Jesse Jones, FDR's Secret Weapon, by Steven Fenberg.

“Jesse Jones is one of those vital figures who has inexplicably slipped into the historical shadows. Now Steven Fenberg has given us a wonderful new biography of a man who played a critical role in the most tumultuous years of the American Century, bringing Jones back to vivid life.”—Jon Meacham, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House and the bestselling Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of An Epic Friendship.

On June 21, Steven Fenberg will tell the story of Jesse Holman Jones who wielded power comparable to that of FDR, saving a crippled U.S. economy during the Great Depression. At a crucial time in U.S. history and working largely out of the limelight as chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corp., Jones saved farms, homes, banks and businesses; built infrastructure; and even set the price of gold with FDR each morning in the President’s bedroom.

The Jerry & Marvy Finger Lecture Series, made possible by the generosity of Mr. Jerry Finger and Mr. Marvy Finger.