I want to celebrate Thanksgiving by letting everyone know that I've concluded a contract to publish The Jew Who Defeated Hitler with Prometheus Books of Albany, N.Y.

I’m thrilled to be working with Steve Mitchell and his team at Prometheus. They have a tremendous catalogue and I’m honored to think my book will be added to it in a year.

The book is virtually finished and I hope to have it to Steve in a few weeks.

I’d like to send special thanks to my tremendous agent, Roger Williams of New England Publishing Associates, for selling the book. Roger’s predecessors, Elizabeth Knappman-Frost and the late Ed Knappman, were also instrumental in getting this project going.

So on this Thanksgiving, I’m especially thankful for the great work these friends have done, and that this book will be out in a year.

Please keep following my blog on Morgenthau as there will be a lot more news.

The Jew Who Defeated Hitler is the story Henry Morgenthau, Jr.’s financing of the Allied war effort is WWII – the biggest economic program in human history. Morgenthau, pictured above with Keynes, accomplished this even though he was a dyslexic college dropout with no financial education. As well as raise about $5 trillion in today’s dollars, Morgenthau led the U.S. airplane program and aid to Britain  in 1939-41 and founded the War Refugee Board, which rescued 200,000 European Jews.

The book should be out by next Thanksgiving. Have a great holiday everyone.