Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years’ War Over the American Dollar

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.

Author: H. W. Brands
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 10/01/2007
Series: Enterprise #0
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.56w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9780393330502
Language: English