Charles R. Crane: The Man Who Bet on People

Charles R. Crane: The Man Who Bet on People

by David Hapgood
Charles R. Crane: The Man Who Bet on People

Charles R. Crane: The Man Who Bet on People

by David Hapgood

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Overview

Heir to a Chicago plumbing company fortune, he lived a life so adventurous that he was the prototype for characters in at least three thrillers. Seldom seen on the public stage, he changed the course of history: once when he intervened with his friend Woodrow Wilson on behalf of another friend, Thomas G. Masaryk, to create a new nation, Czechoslovakia, and again when he sent a geologist to his friend Ibn Saud to prospect the Arabian sands for oil. Mostly, though, he was a man who used his money to help those in whom he believed. Wherever he was, in Bokhara or Baghdad, in the deserts or in the cities, Charles R. Crane carried with him a little black notebook. He would jot down the name of someone whose dream had impressed him — an artist, a would-be statesman, a rescuer of children trapped in Russia´s Civil War, an explorer — and an unexpected check would arrive weeks or months later to help that dream toward reality. In his later years Crane created a foundation, the Institute of Current World Affairs, which for seventy-five years has been carrying on his work of helping promising individuals to make the most of what is in them. Today, when fortunes of record size are being made in record numbers, Crane´s story tells us how one man of vision used his wealth to help make real the visions of others.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781477178812
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Publication date: 06/25/2001
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 673 KB

Table of Contents

Introduction9
1Russia: The Early Years13
2The Chicago Years25
3China 1909: The Aborted Ministry29
4In the Balkans34
5Progressive Politics: La Follette and Wilson41
6Witness to Revolution46
7All Well on The Western Front53
8The King-Crane Commission56
9China at Last63
10For Freedom of the Cable News66
11Across Siberia70
12Search in Arabia74
13Adventures in Publishing85
14The Two Foundations89
15The Last Years97
16Goodbye, Mr. Crane100
Appendix 1On the Transsiberian 1921105
Appendix 2Flying to Baghdad 1929171
Appendix 3In Iraq 1929178
Appendix 4Desert Adventure 1929197
Appendix 5Slow Mail to Muscat 1929203
Appendix 6Days with IBN Saud 1931218
Sources244
Index246
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