Shachtman Tom The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America`s Revolution 9781250164766

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Автор: Shachtman Tom
Название: The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America`s Revolution
ISBN: 9781250164766
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1250164761
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 352
Вес: 0.50 кг.
Дата издания: 21.01.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 241 x 160 x 31
Поставляется из: США
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In The Founding Fortunes, historian Tom Shachtman offers an in-depth look at a time when money became as vital as guns in securing victory in the American Revolution and establishing the new republic.

While history teaches that successful revolutions depend on participation by the common man, the establishment of a stable and independent United States first required wealthy colonials uniting to disrupt the very system that had enriched them, and then funding a very long war. While some fortunes were made during the war at the expense of the poor, many of the wealthy embraced the goal of obtaining for their poorer countrymen an unprecedented equality of opportunity, along with independence.

Shachtman traces the lives of a dozen men who made and lost fortunes, and deeply affected the finances of the new country. In addition to nuanced views of the well-known wealthy such as Robert Morris and John Hancock, and of the less wealthy but influential Alexander Hamilton, The Founding Fortunes offers insight into the contributions of those often overlooked by popular history: Henry Laurens, the plantation owner who replaced Hancock as President of Congress; pioneering businessmen William Bingham, Jeremiah Wadsworth, and Stephen Girard; privateer magnate Elias Hasket Derby; and Hamiltons successors at Treasury, Oliver Wolcott, Jr. and Albert Gallatin.

The Founders dealt with tariffs, taxes on the wealthy, the national debt, regional disparities, the census as it affected finances, and how much of what America needs should be manufactured at home in ways that remain startlingly relevant. Revelatory and insightful, The Founding Fortunes provides a riveting history of economic patriotism that still resonates today.

The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America`s Revolution, Shachtman Tom