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200 1. $a The founders and finance $b Texte imprimé $e how Hamilton, Gallatin, and other immigrants forged a new economy $f Thomas K. McCraw
214 .0 $a Cambridge (Mass.) $c The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press $d 2014
215 .. $a viii, 485 pages $c illustrations $d 24 cm
300 .. $a Includes bibliographical references and index
330 .. $a In 1776 the United States government started out on a shoestring and quickly went
bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national
government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking
the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders and Finance is the first
book to tell the story of how foreign-born financial specialists--immigrants--solved
the fiscal crisis and set the United States on a path to long-term economic success.
Pulitzer Prize--winning author Thomas K. McCraw analyzes the skills and worldliness
of Alexander Hamilton (from the Danish Virgin Islands), Albert Gallatin (from the
Republic of Geneva), and other immigrant founders who guided the nation to prosperity.
Their expertise with liquid capital far exceeded that of native-born plantation owners
Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, who well understood the management of land and
slaves but had only a vague knowledge of financial instruments--currencies, stocks,
and bonds. The very rootlessness of America's immigrant leaders gave them a better
understanding of money, credit, and banks, and the way each could be made to serve
the public good. The remarkable financial innovations designed by Hamilton, Gallatin,
and other immigrants enabled the United States to control its debts, to pay for the
Louisiana Purchase of 1803, and--barely--to fight the War of 1812, which preserved
the nation's hard-won independence from Britain
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