Tom Shachtman

The biography of a remarkable man driven by a simple mission—to help those in need, wherever they are found—and the story of an organization, which has, since 1914, sponsored rescue, relief and reconstruction programs throughout the world. Founded over 85 years ago as a response to the plight...

Unfinished Business It was one of the evenings in tiie week between Christmas and New Year's Eve of 1944. In New York City a fine snow was falling, and it was cold and dark. Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia had ordered that New York's lights be turned out so that the city wouldn't provide a bright...