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âThe former Treasury Secretary has shared his story in a memoir that is both an engrossing personal narrative and a thoughtful reflection on leadershipâ (Henry Kissinger, author of On China).  In a life that has spanned nearly nine decades and has taken him around the world and back, W. Michael Blumenthal has borne witness to the worldâs convulsions and transformations during the twentieth century. Born in Germany between the two world wars, Blumenthal narrowly escaped the Nazi horror, when, in 1939, he and his family fled to Shanghaiâs chaotic Jewish ghetto, where they spent the entirety of the WWII. From these fraught and humble beginnings, Blumenthal would emerge a major leader in American business and politics.  In the second half of the century, Blumenthal headed two major American corporationsâBendix and Burroughs (later Unisys); served as a US trade ambassador in the State Department and the White House, advising John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson; and served under Jimmy Carter as the secretary of the treasury. After his retirement from business and politics, he began an entirely new chapter in his career when he conceived and served as the director of Europeâs largest Jewish museumâthe Jewish Museum of Berlin. An essential autobiography by one of Americaâs great political figures, From Exile to Washington is an engaging chronicle of the twentieth centuryâs greatest upheavals, and a tribute to a lifetime of courage, leadership, and decisiveness.  âBlumenthalâs astute understanding of history allows him to ably demonstrate the significance of good leadership.â âKirkus Reviews  âAn astounding life, splendidly recorded.â âFritz Stern, author of Five Germanys I Have Known |
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