Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich. By Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen. (Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Pp. 240. $25.00.)
Theirs are not household names: Tench Coxe, Albert Gallatin, Thomas Willing, Robert Morris, William Duer, Nicholas Biddle, and Stephen Girard. But according to this book, these men, along with the better known Alexander Hamilton and Andrew Jackson, are responsible for making economic prosperity possible in the ...