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Robert Morris

Author : Charles Rappleye
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416572864
Total Pages : 613 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Robert Morris written by Charles Rappleye and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this biography, the acclaimed author of Sons of Providence, winner of the 2007 George Wash- ington Book Prize, recovers an immensely important part of the founding drama of the country in the story of Robert Morris, the man who financed Washington’s armies and the American Revolution. Morris started life in the colonies as an apprentice in a counting house. By the time of the Revolution he was a rich man, a commercial and social leader in Philadelphia. He organized a clandestine trading network to arm the American rebels, joined the Second Continental Congress, and financed George Washington’s two crucial victories—Valley Forge and the culminating battle at Yorktown that defeated Cornwallis and ended the war. The leader of a faction that included Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and Washington, Morris ran the executive branches of the revolutionary government for years. He was a man of prodigious energy and adroit management skills and was the most successful businessman on the continent. He laid the foundation for public credit and free capital markets that helped make America a global economic leader. But he incurred powerful enemies who considered his wealth and influence a danger to public "virtue" in a democratic society. After public service, he gambled on land speculations that went bad, and landed in debtors prison, where George Washington, his loyal friend, visited him. This once wealthy and powerful man ended his life in modest circumstances, but Rappleye restores his place as a patriot and an immensely important founding father.

Robert Morris's Folly

Author : Ryan K. Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300196040
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Robert Morris's Folly written by Ryan K. Smith and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1798 Robert Morris—“financier of the American Revolution,” confidant of George Washington, former U.S. senator—plunged from the peaks of wealth and prestige into debtors' prison and public contempt. How could one of the richest men in the United States, one of only two founders who signed the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, suffer such a downfall? This book examines for the first time the extravagant Philadelphia town house Robert Morris built and its role in bringing about his ruin. Part biography, part architectural history, the book recounts Morris’s wild successes as a merchant, his recklessness as a land speculator, and his unrestrained passion in building his palatial, doomed mansion, once hailed as the most expensive private building in the United States but later known as “Morris’s Folly.” Setting Morris’s tale in the context of the nation’s founding, this volume refocuses attention on an essential yet nearly forgotten American figure while also illuminating the origins of America’s ongoing, ambivalent attitudes toward the superwealthy and their sensational excesses.

Robert Morris, the Financier of the American Revolution

Author : Charles Henry Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robert Morris, the Financier of the American Revolution written by Charles Henry Hart and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Financial Founding Fathers

Author : Robert E. Wright
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226910687
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Financial Founding Fathers written by Robert E. Wright and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors chronicle how a different group of nine founding fathers forged the wealth and institutions necessary to transform the American colonies from a diffuse alliance of contending business interests into one cohesive economic superpower.

Robert Morris, the Financier of the American Revolution ... Reprinted from the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

Author : Charles Henry HART
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Robert Morris, the Financier of the American Revolution ... Reprinted from the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography written by Charles Henry HART and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gentleman Revolutionary

Author : Richard Brookhiser
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439104085
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Gentleman Revolutionary written by Richard Brookhiser and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1996, Richard Brookhiser has devoted himself to recovering the Founding for modern Americans. The creators of our democracy had both the temptations and the shortcomings of all men, combined with the talents and idealism of the truly great. Among them, no Founding Father demonstrates the combination of temptations and talents quite so vividly as the least known of the greats, Gouverneur Morris. His story is one that should be known by every American -- after all, he drafted the Constitution, and his hand lies behind many of its most important phrases. Yet he has been lost in the shadows of the Founders who became presidents and faces on our currency. As Brookhiser shows in this sparkling narrative, Morris's story is not only crucial to the Founding, it is also one of the most entertaining and instructive of all. Gouverneur Morris, more than Washington, Jefferson, or even Franklin, is the Founding Father whose story can most readily touch our hearts, and whose character is most sorely needed today. He was a witty, peg-legged ladies' man. He was an eyewitness to two revolutions (American and French) who joked with George Washington, shared a mistress with Talleyrand, and lost friends to the guillotine. In his spare time he gave New York City its street grid and New York State the Erie Canal. His keen mind and his light, sure touch helped make our Constitution the most enduring fundamental set of laws in the world. In his private life, he suited himself; pleased the ladies until, at age fifty-seven, he settled down with one lady (and pleased her); and lived the life of a gentleman, for whom grace and humanity were as important as birth. He kept his good humor through war, mobs, arson, death, and two accidents that burned the flesh from one of his arms and cut off one of his legs below the knee. Above all, he had the gift of a sunny disposition that allowed him to keep his head in any troubles. We have much to learn from him, and much pleasure to take in his company.

Robert Morris, the Financier of the American Revolution

Author : Charles Henry Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Robert Morris, the Financier of the American Revolution written by Charles Henry Hart and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781-1784

Author : Robert Morris
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 9780822970187
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781-1784 written by Robert Morris and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Robert Morris (1734-1806), "the Financier of the American Revolution," was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, a powerful committee chairman in the Continental Congress, an important figure in Pennsylvania politics, and perhaps the most prominent businessman of his day, he is today least known of the great national leaders of the Revolutionary era.This oversight is being rectified by this definitive publication project that transcribes and carefully annotates the Office of Finance diary, correspondence, and other official papers written by Morris during his administration as superintendent of finance from 1781 to 1784.

Robert Morris, the Financier of the American Revolution

Author : Charles H. Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780795031465
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Robert Morris, the Financier of the American Revolution written by Charles H. Hart and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Sons of Providence

Author : Charles Rappleye
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743266889
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Sons of Providence written by Charles Rappleye and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "American Mafioso" comes the story of the Brown brothers, leading slave merchants of Providence, Rhode Island, during the time of the American Revolution.

Taming Democracy

Author : Terry Bouton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195306651
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Taming Democracy written by Terry Bouton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

The Founders and Finance

Author : Thomas K. McCraw
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674071352
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Founders and Finance written by Thomas K. McCraw and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781-1784

Author : Robert Morris
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 9780822970262
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781-1784 written by Robert Morris and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1988-12-01 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Robert Morris (1734-1806), "the Financier of the American Revolution," was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, a powerful committee chairman in the Continental Congress, an important figure in Pennsylvania politics, and perhaps the most prominent businessman of his day, he is today least known of the great national leaders of the Revolutionary era.This oversight is being rectified by this definitive publication project that transcribes and carefully annotates the Office of Finance diary, correspondence, and other official papers written by Morris during his administration as superintendent of finance from 1781 to 1784.

Papers of Robert Morris, 1781–1784, Volume 4

Author : Robert Morris
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822970201
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Papers of Robert Morris, 1781–1784, Volume 4 written by Robert Morris and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1978-06-30 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Robert Morris (1734-1806), the Financier of the American Revolution, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, a powerful committee chairman in the Continental Congress, an important figure in Pennsylvania politics, and perhaps the most prominent businessman of his day, he is today least known of the great national leaders of the Revolutionary era.This oversight is being rectified by this definitive publication project that transcribes and carefully annotates the Office of Finance diary, correspondence, and other official papers written by Morris during his administration as superintendent of finance from 1781 to 1784.

Papers of Robert Morris, 1781–1784, Volume 3

Author : Robert Morris
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822970198
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Papers of Robert Morris, 1781–1784, Volume 3 written by Robert Morris and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Robert Morris (1734-1806), the Financier of the American Revolution, was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, a powerful committee chairman in the Continental Congress, an important figure in Pennsylvania politics, and perhaps the most prominent businessman of his day, he is today least known of the great national leaders of the Revolutionary era.This oversight is being rectified by this definitive publication project that transcribes and carefully annotates the Office of Finance diary, correspondence, and other official papers written by Morris during his administration as superintendent of finance from 1781 to 1784.

The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781-1784

Author : Robert Morris
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822933241
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book The Papers of Robert Morris, 1781-1784 written by Robert Morris and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 1977-06-01 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Robert Morris (1734-1806), "the Financier of the American Revolution," was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, a powerful committee chairman in the Continental Congress, an important figure in Pennsylvania politics, and perhaps the most prominent businessman of his day, he is today least known of the great national leaders of the Revolutionary era.This oversight is being rectified by this definitive publication project that transcribes and carefully annotates the Office of Finance diary, correspondence, and other official papers written by Morris during his administration as superintendent of finance from 1781 to 1784.

The Founders' Fortunes

Author : Willard Sterne Randall
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524745928
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book The Founders' Fortunes written by Willard Sterne Randall and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating financial history of the Founding Fathers, revealing how their personal finances shaped the Constitution and the new nation In 1776, upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers concluded America’s most consequential document with a curious note, pledging “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.” Lives and honor did indeed hang in the balance, yet just what were their fortunes? How much did the Founders stand to gain or lose through independence? And what lingering consequences did their respective financial stakes have on liberty, justice, and the fate of the fledgling United States of America? In this landmark account, historian Willard Sterne Randall investigates the private financial affairs of the Founders, illuminating like never before how and why the Revolution came about. The Founders’ Fortunes uncovers how these leaders waged war, crafted a constitution, and forged a new nation influenced in part by their own financial interests. In an era where these very issues have become daily national questions, the result is a remarkable and insightful new understanding of our nation’s bedrock values.