Adolf Berle
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Adolf Augustus Berle, Jr. (January 27, 1895 - February 17, 1971) was an educator, author, and U.S. diplomat. Educated at Harvard, Berle was a member of the Paris Peace Conference after World War I, but, unhappy with the terms of the Versailles Treaty, he resigned in protest. He became a professor of corporate law at Columbia Law School in 1927 and remained on the faculty until retiring in 1964.
During the FDR Administration, Berle worked on the New Deal and the Good Neighbor Policy. He later served as Ambassador to Brazil from 1945 to 1946, and was a founding member of the New York State Liberal Party. In 1961, he headed a task force for President John F. Kennedy that recommended the Alliance for Progress.
He published several books during his lifetime, including the groundbreaking work he authored with Gardiner Means called The Modern Corporation and Private Property, which was first published in 1932.
He told The Literary Digest his name was pronounced "as if spelled burley." (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.)
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- The Modern Corporation and Private Property (1932; 1991 ed: ISBN 0-88738-887-6) with Gardiner Means
- The 20th Century Capitalist Revolution (1954; ASIN B0006ATWVC)
- Power without Property (1959; ISBN 0-15-173349-X)
- Latin America: Diplomacy and Reality (1962; 1981 ed: ISBN 0-313-22970-8)
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