Author James Worthen discusses his newly released book "George Humphrey, Charles Wilson and Eisenhower's War on Spending."
This book provides the first detailed examination of how two of the country's richest businessmen--Humphrey and Wilson--helped shape Eisenhower's domestic policies and priorities.
Persuasive and charming, Treasury Secretary Humphrey was obsessed with cutting spending. Defense Secretary Wilson--whose departmental funding comprised most of the federal budget--bore the brunt of Humphrey's anti-spending campaign, while struggling to master his brief and control the restive military bureaucracy.
Worthen is a former senior executive and Russian affairs specialist at the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C.
He has degrees from Occidental College in Los Angeles, the University of California at Berkeley, and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.