White House Burning: Our National Debt and Why It Matters to You
- ISBN-10
- 0307947645
- ISBN-13
- 9780307947642
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 368
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-02-12
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Simon Johnson
Description
An account of America's debt crisis argues for specific measures to prevent a loss of the nation's superpower status, identifying the role of the national debt in the lives of ordinary citizens while analyzing government practices that prevent debt reductions.
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2012-04-03
- 368 pages
- Ebook
- Vintage
Similar books
-
The White House Is Burning: August 24, 1814
By Jane Sutcliffe... sailor's right to renounce his citizenship and become an American sailor. The British routinely boarded American ships to seize these “deserters.” They hauled off a ... navy saw the boarding of American ships and 2 The White House Is Burning.
-
When Britain Burned the White House: The 1814 Invasion of Washington
By Peter SnowWhen Britain Burned the White House highlights this unparalleled moment in British and American history, the courageous, successful defense of Fort McHenry and the American triumph that would follow, and America's and Britain's decision to ...
-
The Burning of the White House: James and Dolley Madison and the War of 1812
By Jane Hampton CookKnown as the Lansdowne portrait, Gilbert Stuart's full-length painting of George Washington also hangs at the Smithsonian Institution's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. The painting is called the Lansdowne portrait because ...
-
Washington Burning: How a Frenchman's Vision for Our Nation's Capital Survived Congress, the Founding Fathers, and the Invading British Army
By Les StandifordThe Riveting Story of the Federal City and the Men Who Built It In 1814, British troops invaded Washington, consuming President Madison’s hastily abandoned dinner before setting his home and the rest of the city ablaze.
-
When They Burned the White House [Illustrated Edition]
By Andrew TullyAward winning author and newspaperman, Andrew Tully, has added flesh to the bones of this true story of an often over-looked and confusing period of U.S. history.
-
Through the Perilous Fight: Six Weeks That Saved the Nation
By Steve VogelPickcrsgill used some four hundred yards of top-quality bunting— worsted wool manufactured, ironically, in England. Each stripe had to be twenty-three inches wide, and as the bunting was woven in strips no wider than eighteen inches, ...
-
Official Residences Around the World
By Abby Clouse-RadiganOfficial Residences Around the World
-
The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America
By Anders WalkerThe intellectuals discussed in this book all agreed that black culture was resilient, creative, and profound, brutally honest in its assessment of American history.
-
Washington City is Burning
By Harriette Gillem RobinetIn 1814 Virginia, a slave in President Madison's White House, experiences the burning of Washington by the invading British army.
-
Burning Down the House: The End of Juvenile Prison
By Nell BernsteinBurning Down the House is a clarion call to shut down our nation’s brutal and counterproductive juvenile prisons and bring our children home.