Title: useful but incomplete
Product review: I mostly agree with the previous reviewer; the book is a useful history and debunks some of the conventional wisdom. My only complaint is that the book is very Washington-centric and somewhat biased by omission of other points of view. Japan is barely mentioned and there is little coverage of the point of view from the European side. There is very little about the negotiations between White and Keynes which perhaps has been covered elsewhere but would have added useful context. Even though US policy makers worried incessantly about the gold outflows, they never actually *did* much about it, and the reasons for that remain obscure after reading the book.In short, there is much interesting historical context here, but none of the big "why" questions are answered. Perhaps that's too much to ask in a 200 page book, but I came away unsatisfied.
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