The Money Men : Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar, Paperback / softback Book

The Money Men : Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar Paperback / softback

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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.

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