Edward S. Miller is a prize-winning historian and author on American naval and strategic history. His book War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897–1945, published by the Naval Institute Press, received wide acclaim from senior cabinet and military leaders and the press. He was named author of the year by the Institute in 1992. The work earned five history prizes, including the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History, and was also published in Japanese.
Bankrupting the Enemy, like the author’s previous book, draws on newly declassified sources of a crucial historical era. It brings together Miller’s interests in national strategy and finance, the latter stemming from a thirty-year career that culminated as Chief Financial Officer of a major international mining and energy corporation. He also served as director of U.S.-Japanese joint ventures in metal production. His knowledge of resource economics was furthered by his appointment in 1982 by President Ronald Reagan as Vice President-Finance of the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation in Washington, D.C., where he was responsible for assessing the financial viability of multi-billion-dollar synthetic oil and gas projects.
Miller received his BA from Syracuse University, Phi Beta Kappa, and did graduate studies at NYU and the Harvard Business School. He served two years in the Army Finance Corps in the 1950s. He resides with his wife, Joyce, at the Watergate in Washington, D.C. Mr. Miller has two children and two grandchildren.