 The book was dedicated to the then U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, and it took over two years to complete.The ghostwriter for Henry Morgenthau was Burton J. Hendrick; however, a comparison with official documents filed by Morgenthau in his role as ambassador shows that the book must have been structured and written extensively by Morgenthau himself.The book is a primary source regarding the Armenian Genocide, and the Greek Genocide during the last years of the Ottoman Empire.