The founding fortunes how the wealthy paid for and profited from America's revolution
"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 on the Revolutionary War's battlefields, and how some of America's wealthiest men risked their fortunes to aid the new country even as they reape...
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St. Martin's Press
2020
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Part one: Colonial matters, 1763-1776, Offensive acts
- Resistance becomes rebellion
- Pledging lives and fortunes
- Part two: The Revolutionary War, 1776-1781. Blood, property, and profit
- Valley Forge dreams
- Interlude: assault on Fort Wilson
- Bricks without straw: the path to Yorktown
- Part three: Victory and aftermath, 1781-1789. Triumph, and the costs of war
- Targets of ire
- Curing the defects
- Part four: The federalist ascendancy, 1789-1796. Washington: creating the establishment
- Progress, panic, and paternalism
- New resistance to authority
- Part five: Parties, populism, and striving for economic independence, 1797-1813. Adams: necessary transitions
- Jefferson: the pendulum swing
- Madison: a war for economic freedom