MARLIN | Books and Blogs 2016

William H. Woodin, FDR's First Treasury Secretary

Status of my top book projects and blogs as of February 2016:

1. Will Woodin, FDR's First Treasury Secretary - biography. A draft is completed. A book proposal for a publisher has been prepared. 

2. The Boissevain and van Hall Families in the Dutch Resistance - family biography of 1940-45. A draft has been completed and is being reviewed by the family.

3. Heraldry of the Oxford Colleges. An article was published in Oxford Today. Sample write-ups of Oxford colleges' arms have been posted.

4. Biographies of Eugen Boissevain, Hilda van Stockum, Alice Tepper Marlin. In various stages of writing.

I would love it if anyone who reads this could look at the chapters I have posted above under 1 and 2 and comment. My email address is John[at]CityEconomist[dot]com.

Meanwhile, I post regularly on the following nine blogsites, listed in order of cumulative number of PageViews, which now approach one million (more than 975,000 as of Feb. 21, 2016).

1. CityEconomist.blogspot.com (Regional, Economic History, Policy) 
2. Ox-Cam NYC (Oxford, Cambridge Heraldry and Other Themes)
3. Writers4Kids.blogspot.com (Children's Books, Birthdays)
4. CSRNYC (Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainability)
5. NYCTimeTraveler.blogspot.com (History, Sci-Fi)
6. Warriors-Families (Military History, Economics)
7. Hilda van Stockum (Her Books, Art, Life, Family)
8. Inez Milholland (Her Life, Husband Eugen Boissevain, His second wife Edna St. Vincent Millay) 
9. Boissevain Books (Children's Books, Memoirs, Bios, SciFi)

MARLIN | Blogs and Projects 2015 (Updated October 28, 2015)

William H. Woodin, FDR's First Treasury Secretary

My top projects as of fall 2015:

1. Will Woodin, FDR's First Treasury Secretary - biography.

2. The Boissevain and van Hall Families in the Dutch Resistance - family biography of 1940-45.

3. Biographies of Eugen Boissevain, Hilda van Stockum, Alice Tepper Marlin.

I would love it if anyone who reads this could look at the chapters I have posted above under 1 and 2 and comment. My email address is John[at]CityEconomist[dot]com.

Meanwhile, I post regularly on the following nine blogsites, listed in order of cumulative number of PageViews, which now approach one million.

1. CityEconomist.blogspot.com (Regional, Economic History) 
2. Ox-Cam NYC (Oxford, Cambridge Themes)
3. Writers4Kids.blogspot.com (Children's Books, Birthdays)
4. CSRNYC (Corporate Social Responsibility)
5. NYCTimeTraveler.blogspot.com (History)
6. Warriors-Families (Military History, Economics)
7. Hilda van Stockum (Her Books, Art, Life, Family)
8. Inez Milholland (Her Life, Husband Eugen Boissevain, His second wife Edna St. Vincent Millay) 
9. Boissevain Books (Children's Books, Memoirs, Bios, SciFi)

WW2 | Boissevain Family in the Resistance

The Dutch Resistance Museum opens with questions.
What would you do if the Nazis occupied your country?

AMSTERDAM, Feb 14, 2015–Visited Het Verzetsmuseum (The Dutch Resistance Museum) yesterday.

I am researching for a book what the Boissevain and van Hall families  did during the Nazi occupation of Holland, 1940-1945. The outline is posted here.

One of the chilling features of the Verzetsmuseum is its diary of the increasing pressure on the Dutch as the Occupation, which lasted five years, became increasingly confrontational. The Nazis expected the same cooperation in Holland from their Dutch cousins as they got in Austria.

After the German army moved into Holland, the Verzetsmuseum  handbook (English version), quotes from the diary of a housewife living in the Hague about the dread that overtook them all:

Especially for the Jews. Oh, that tormented race. The arrival of the Germans filled them with fear, fear about the fate that was now awaiting them. Many of them preferred suicide to awaiting their fate. Entire families together. (Het Verzetsmuseum, 24, emphasis added.)

For the next few months, however, the occupying Nazis played a clever game, trying to reassure non-Jewish Dutch people that they were benign rulers.

The occupiers behaved properly, hoping to win over the Dutch, as part of the “Germanic brotherhood”, to National Socialism. As a gesture of goodwill, after the Dutch army was disbanded, they released the Dutch prisoners of war. … Many Dutch people thought they ought to reconcile themselves to the situation. (Het Verzetsmuseum, 24.)

That all changed with the General Strike in 1941.