Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich

From: Business History Review | Date: July 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich. By Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 240 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $25.00. ISBN: 0-226-91068-7.

Reviewed by Andrew Shankman

Financial Founding Fathers offers a breezy glimpse of the early republic's key financiers and pivotal financial episodes. Alexander Hamilton, who is lionized as "the creator" and accorded almost godlike status by the authors, Robert Wright and David Cowen, initially conceived a flawless plan to enrich the nation. From the mid-i7gos to circa 1840, ...

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