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Two and a half centuries after the American Revolution the US stands as one of the greatest powers on earth and the undoubted leader of the western hemisphere. The author maintains that the Founding Fathers clearly understood the connection between public finance and power: a well-managed public debt was a key part of every modern state.

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"I consider Edling one of the finest historians of the early American republic in the world today. A Hercules in the Cradle will revolutionize the way historians think about the founding and development of the federal state-a state with the capacity to fulfill the expanding new empire's 'manifest destiny.'" (Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and University of Virginia)"

A Hercules in the Cradle

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/11/2014
      ISBN13: 9780226181578, 978-0226181578
      ISBN10: 022618157X

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      Book Synopsis
      Two and a half centuries after the American Revolution the US stands as one of the greatest powers on earth and the undoubted leader of the western hemisphere. The author maintains that the Founding Fathers clearly understood the connection between public finance and power: a well-managed public debt was a key part of every modern state.

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      "I consider Edling one of the finest historians of the early American republic in the world today. A Hercules in the Cradle will revolutionize the way historians think about the founding and development of the federal state-a state with the capacity to fulfill the expanding new empire's 'manifest destiny.'" (Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation and University of Virginia)"

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