Hamilton's Blessing
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
about it, because the prospect of bringing it under control is
unimaginable. We consider it a national liability and fear our children
will be forced to pay for our current excesses. John Steele Gordon is a
welcome antidote. In 1997, his book, Hamilton's Blessing, offered a
"biography" of the debt, making it very much a human drama while
explaining the myriad, mostly positive, ways it has influenced America's
history since Alexander Hamilton first proposed the virtues of a
national debt in 1792.
However, the 12 years since the book's
initial publication have been perhaps the most dramatic in the debt's
history-since it has more than doubled and continues on an ever-upward
spiral. Now, more than ever, we need John Steele Gordon's wisdom-his
revised and expanded edition of Hamilton's Blessing will put this
historic expansion in perspective, allowing us to better participate in
debate and discussion.
Bringing a remarkable national
institution to life, Gordon offers, in the process, an original view of
American history, and insight into both well- and lesser-known figures
who have influenced and charted our voyage, from Hamilton to Jay Cooke
to John Maynard Keynes to the present. The national debt helped rescue
the Union during the Civil War and raise the nation out of the
Depression-thus offering hope it may serve a similar purpose in the
decades to come.
John Steele Gordon
John Steele Gordon is one of America's leading historians, specializing in business and financial history. A full-time writer for the last nineteen years, Gordon's articles have been published in, among others, Forbes, Forbes FYI, Worth, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times's and The Wall Street Journal's Op-Ed pages, and The Washington Post's Book World and Outlook. A contributing editor at American Heritage magazine, he has written the "Business of America"column there since 1989. His book, The Business of America (Walker & Company, 2001) is a collection of those columns. A Thread Across the Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable (Walker & Company 2002) is Gordon's sixth book. His first book, Overlanding, about his experience driving a Land Rover from New York to Tierra del Fuego, Argentina??ine-month journey of 39,000 miles?? published by Harper & Row in 1975. It was followed by The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street, a history of Wall Street in the 1860?(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1988), Hamilton's Blessing: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Our National Debt (Walker & Company, 1997), and The Great Game: The Emergence of Wall Street as a World Power, 1653-2000 (Scribner, 1999). John Steele Gordon can be heard frequently on Public Radio International's Marketplace, the daily business-news program heard on more than two hundred stations across the country. He has appeared on numerous other radio and television shows, including Business Center on CNBC, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, The News with Brian Williams, and c-span's Booknotes with Brian Lamb. In addition, he has appeared in a number of television documentaries about American and economic history, including CNBC's The Great Game, based on his book, and Ric Burns's New York: A Documentary Film. John Steele Gordon lives in North Salem, New York. He is currently writing An Empire of Wealth: A History of the American Economy, to be published by HarperCollins.
Related to Hamilton's Blessing
Related ebooks
Balanced Budgets, Fiscal Responsibility, and The Constitution: (Cato Public Policy Research Monograph No. 1) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Panic of 1819: Reactions and Policies Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRiches and Poverty Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFifty Fast Facts About The American Revolution: Fifty Fast Facts, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Adam Fergusson's When Money Dies Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings60 Miles,17000 Miles Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of William J. Bernstein'sThe Birth of Plenty Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGale Researcher Guide for: The Legacy of the French and Indian War Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMoney Mayhem: The Bewildering Consequences of Cutting Money Free Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Glenn Beck & Kevin Balfe 's Broke Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of William Quinn & J. D. Turner's Boom and Bust Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGimmickry: In the Search for More Money [Whatever Works in the Scheme of Things] Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhen the New Deal Came to Town: A Snapshot of a Place and Time with Lessons for Today Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Brief History of America, Canada and England 3-in-1 Collection Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Balfour Declaration: Empire, the Mandate and Resistance in Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Present State of the British Interest in India: With a Plan for Establishing a Regular System of Government in That Country Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEconomic Prosperity in the British Empire Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe History of the American Revolution Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Summary Of "The American Crisis And The Persian Gulf War" By Pablo Pozzi: UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHoly Economics: Resolving the Debt Crisis Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsGlobal Fracture: The New International Economic Order Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Socialism Looks Forward Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWhen Washington Burned: An Illustrated History of the War of 1812 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Man, Land, and Water: Mexico's Farmlands Irrigation Policies 1885-1911 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Wars Between England and America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Public Policy For You
Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Just Mercy: a story of justice and redemption Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Chasing the Scream: The Inspiration for the Feature Film "The United States vs. Billie Holiday" Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The People's Hospital: Hope and Peril in American Medicine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Affluent Society Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Capital in the Twenty-First Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5America: The Farewell Tour Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Civil Rights: RHETORIC OR REALITY Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: or, How Capitalism Works--and How It Fails Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Truth About COVID-19: Exposing The Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Men without Work: Post-Pandemic Edition (2022) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care--and How to Fix It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How We Do Harm: A Doctor Breaks Ranks About Being Sick in America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tell Your Children: The Truth About Marijuana, Mental Illness, and Violence Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Hamilton's Blessing
0 ratings0 reviews