By the turn of the twentieth century, the Ottoman government had found a chief partner in efforts at large-scale environmental reengineering. In 1903, led by managing director Arthur Gwinner, Deutsche Bank began negotiations to radically alter the geography of water on the Konya plain in central...
preferring instead to set his own pace, and ignoring appointments if he was interested enough in a conversation. He also possessed the largest private library in America. Not all of his ideas won wide acceptance. A case in point: Franklin’s choice for the national bird was the turkey. ...