Offers in-depth profiles of five men who played a key role in America's financial history and development, including Alexander Hamilton, Nicholas Biddle, Jay Cooke, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan, examining their diverse attitudes toward money ...
Acclaimed historian H. W. Brands brings them back to life: J. P. Morgan, who stabilized a foundering U.S. Treasury in 1907; Alexander Hamilton, who founded the first national bank, and Nicholas Biddle, under whose directorship it failed; ...
The real political campaigns in America begin with the money men. If you assume that fund-raising is so distasteful that you don't want to hear any more about it, you...
... John Curtin, as Labor's vote lifted under the new leadership of James Scullin and the people tired of Stanley ... becoming minister for defence and minister assisting the treasurer (Theodore). Curtin missed out on election to the ...
The Money Men