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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
H W Brands |
ISBN: | 0393061841 9780393061840 9780393330502 0393330508 |
OCLC Number: | 65205056 |
Notes: | "Atlas Books." |
Description: | 239 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
Contents: | The aristocracy of capital -- The bank war -- The bonds of union -- The great gold conspiracy -- The transit of Jupiter. |
Series Title: | Enterprise (New York, N.Y.) |
Responsibility: | H.W. Brands. |
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Abstract:
Focuses on five "Money Men": Alexander Hamilton, who championed a national bank; Nicholas Biddle, whose run-in with Andrew Jackson led to the bank's demise; Jay Cooke, who financed the Union in the Civil War; Jay Gould, who tried to corner the gold market; and J P Morgan, whose position was so commanding that he bailed out the US Treasury.
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