Description
Book SynopsisRefuting claims from both the political right and left, this dynamic narrative history brings to life the long-forgotten founding struggles over American finance, economics, and taxes and reveals their immense and startling relevance to political struggle
Trade ReviewMixing lively narrative with fresh views of America’s founders, in
Founding Finance, William Hogeland offers a new perspective on America’s economic infancy. -- Bob Edmonds * McCormick Messenger *
Table of Contents
- Chapter One. The Founders, Finance, and Us (2012)
- Chapter Two. Regulate, Riot, Occupy (1765–1771)
- Chapter Three. Two Revolutions? (1771–1776)
- Chapter Four. Conceived in War Debt (1776–1783)
- Chapter Five. History on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1913–2012)
- Chapter Six. An Existential Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (1784–1789)
- Chapter Seven. It's Hamilton's World... We Just Live In It (1790–1791)
- Chapter Eight. Crackdown and Lockup: Cincinnatus, the Whiskey Rebels, and the End of Thomas Paine (1792– )
- Chapter Nine. Gather Your Armies (2012)
- Acknowledgments
- References
