Ralph White

Broschiertes Buch

Getting Out of Saigon

How a 27-Year-Old Banker Saved 113 Vietnamese Civilians

Beschreibung

Ralph White tells the remarkable story of how as a young banker in Saigon during the final weeks before the city fell to the North Vietnamese, he saved the entire staff of the Saigon branch of Chase Manhattan bank and their families, via a secret American-run network he discovered -- Argo meets The Fall of Saigon.

Autor

In 1973, Ralph White joined the Chase Manhattan Bank and worked as a business development officer in Thailand and Hong Kong; during his tenure in Thailand, he was temporarily assigned to Vietnam to close the bank’s Saigon branch as the city fell. Upon return to Chase’s New York headquarters in 1981, he worked in the International Strategic Planning Division and was a Vice President when he left. White subsequently worked as a business development officer with three foreign banks and earned an MBA at Columbia University. In 2009, he founded the Columbia Fiction Foundry, a writing workshop for alumni of Columbia University. Having served as the organization’s president for its first decade, White now serves as its Chairman. He lives in New York City and Litchfield, Connecticut.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 140mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 264g
• ISBN-13: 9781982195182
• ISBN-10: 1982195185
• Artikelnr.: 68330743