Berle, Adolf Augustus, Jr. (1895–1971)

Abstract

A graduate at an early age of Harvard College and the Harvard Law School, Berle served in Army Intelligence in World War I and on the American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, from which he emerged to denounce the terms of the Treaty, as did Keynes, though to a lesser audience. After practising law in New York, he joined the law faculty of Columbia University, where he became a member of the famous Brains Trust of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was a close adviser of Roosevelt’s, both before and after the latter’s election to the Presidency.