The Wealth of Shadows

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Oscar-winning screenwriter Graham Moore tells the story of a secret US Treasury team that sets out to defeat Nazi Germany through economic warfare. In 1939, Minneapolis lawyer Ansel Luxford joins a clandestine project in Washington led by Harry Dexter White. Working before America enters the war, the team cuts off Germany's gold, brokers secret deals and spars with figures like J. P. Morgan and John Maynard Keynes. Meanwhile, Ansel's wife hunts for spies for the FBI. The novel is based on a tr…

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