American financier, stock investor, philanthropist, and political consultant.
Key adviser to Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters.
Baruch was highly involved in mobilizing America for war in both WWI and WWII. After WWI, he foresaw that another World War could be on the horizon, and that the USA needed to prepare for it.
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