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- Author: H. W. Brands
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Year: 2010
- Pages: 240
- ISBN: 9780393340501
- ISBN-10: 0393340503
- ISBN-13: 9780393340501
- Format: ePub
- Language: English
The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar (Enterprise) (e-book) (used book) | bookbook.eu
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Most Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history—the story of the money men. Acclaimed historian H. W. Brands brings them back to life: J. P. Morgan, who stabilized a foundering U.S. Treasury in 1907; Alexander Hamilton, who founded the first national bank, and Nicholas Biddle, under whose directorship it failed; Jay Cooke, who helped to finance the Union war effort through his then-innovative strategy of selling bonds to ordinary Americans; and Jay Gould, who tried to corner the market on gold in 1869 and as a result brought about Black Friday and fled for his life.
- Author: H. W. Brands
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Year: 2010
- Pages: 240
- ISBN: 9780393340501
- ISBN-10: 0393340503
- ISBN-13: 9780393340501
- Format: ePub
- Language: English English
Most Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history—the story of the money men. Acclaimed historian H. W. Brands brings them back to life: J. P. Morgan, who stabilized a foundering U.S. Treasury in 1907; Alexander Hamilton, who founded the first national bank, and Nicholas Biddle, under whose directorship it failed; Jay Cooke, who helped to finance the Union war effort through his then-innovative strategy of selling bonds to ordinary Americans; and Jay Gould, who tried to corner the market on gold in 1869 and as a result brought about Black Friday and fled for his life.
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