I've started ordering books from used book dealers who use amazon.com as a storefront. Just started, so none of the books have shown up yet, but they get rated, like eBay dealers, so I am optimistic. So far I've ordered Friedman & Schwartz's Monetary History of the United States hardback for about $20 - the dealer claims it's like new; Hitler's Banker, a biography of Hjalmar Schacht; that Benjamin Anderson book you were recommending; and a biography of Benjamin Strong.
The public library has the Chernow book on the House of Morgan, I am about to go there and check it out. I am really intrigued by things I've been reading that say that Owen Young, after whom the Young Plan was named, was tied to the House of Morgan, and so was Hjalmar Schacht. That makes me more suspicious than ever about the Bank for International Settlements, which was set up to facilitate the Young Plan. I know Hjalmar Schacht resigned the Chairmanship of the Reichsbank over something to do with the Young Plan, but have never seen the details. I've read in some places that Schacht was opposed to the Young Plan, in others that he helped negotiate it.
I have to say that this is taking me uncomfortably close to some nutty conspiracy theorists - at least, I assume they are nutty. If there really was a sinister connection between Wall Street and the Nazis, that seems like the type of thing that should be common knowledge.
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