The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar (Enterprise)W. W. Norton & Company, 2010 M11 1 - 240 pages An "insightful" (Publishers Weekly) history of the development of American capitalism and the men who made it great. 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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... United States in the World : A History of American Foreign Relations Into the Labyrinth : The United States and the Middle East , 1945-1993 The Devil We Knew : Americans and the Cold War Bound to Empire : The United States and the ...
... United States in the World : A History of American Foreign Relations Into the Labyrinth : The United States and the Middle East , 1945-1993 The Devil We Knew : Americans and the Cold War Bound to Empire : The United States and the ...
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... United States — History . 2. Finance — United States— History . I. Title . II . Series : Enterprise ( New York , N.Y. ) HG181.B82 2006 332.092'273 — dc22 2006009919 ISBN 978-0-393-33050-2 pbk . W. W. Norton & Company , Inc. 500 Fifth ...
... United States — History . 2. Finance — United States— History . I. Title . II . Series : Enterprise ( New York , N.Y. ) HG181.B82 2006 332.092'273 — dc22 2006009919 ISBN 978-0-393-33050-2 pbk . W. W. Norton & Company , Inc. 500 Fifth ...
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... United States ? Gold ? Silver ? Paper currency ? Bank notes ? Checks ? This central ques- tion raised subsidiary questions . How much money shall there be ? Who ought to control it ? To what ends ? The money question has been a puzzle ...
... United States ? Gold ? Silver ? Paper currency ? Bank notes ? Checks ? This central ques- tion raised subsidiary questions . How much money shall there be ? Who ought to control it ? To what ends ? The money question has been a puzzle ...
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H. W. Brands. conundrum for the United States during the eighteenth, nine- teenth, and early twentieth centuries. This period encompassed the emergence of the two institutions that made modern America what it is today: democracy and ...
H. W. Brands. conundrum for the United States during the eighteenth, nine- teenth, and early twentieth centuries. This period encompassed the emergence of the two institutions that made modern America what it is today: democracy and ...
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... : to levy taxes and tariffs, to borrow money on the credit of the United States, to pay the public debt, to coin money and regulate its value. And it denied certain financial and economic powers - to coin money The Money Men 35.
... : to levy taxes and tariffs, to borrow money on the credit of the United States, to pay the public debt, to coin money and regulate its value. And it denied certain financial and economic powers - to coin money The Money Men 35.
Contents
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The Bank War | 57 |
The Bonds of Union | 97 |
The Great Gold Conspiracy | 131 |
The Transit of Jupiter | 159 |
The Money Answer | 199 |
Notes | 207 |
For Further Reading | 217 |
Index | 223 |
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