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In a bracing work of history, a leading international finance expert reveals how our national security depends on our financial security More than two centuries ago, America’s first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, identified the Revolutionary War debt as a threat to the... read more
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- Alexander Hamilton: Add a description of this character.
- Reagan
- Lyndon Johnson
- Morgenthau
- Roosevelt
- Woodrow Wilson
- Mcadoo
- Lincoln
- Jefferson
- Chase
- Eisenhower
- Martin
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- Morrill
- Doughton
- George H. W. Bush
- Randolph
- Keynes
- Fessenden
- Mcnamara
- Vandenberg
- George W. Bush
- Volcker
- Claude Kitchin
- Fowler
- Weinberger
- Carter
- Kennedy
- John Adams
- Taft
- Walter Russell Mead
- James Madison
- Reed
- Harrison
- O'neill
- Stevens
Setting & Locations edit
- United States
- America
- Britain
- Washington
- Iraq
- White House
- Albert Gallatin
- Vietnam
- Europe
- New York
- Soviet Union
- France
- Afghanistan
- Germany
- Kuwait
- Pennsylvania
- New England
- Japan
- Virginia
- South Korea
- Ohio
- Kremlin
- New Deal
- Massachusetts
- Philadelphia
- Moscow
- China
- Dallas
- Illinois
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- New Jersey
- Texas
- Middle East
- Mississippi
- Congress
- Midwest
First Sentence edit
Few of the multitudes of bankers and lawyers hurrying past the forty-four-story office building that currently stands at 57 Maiden Lane, in New York's financial district, are likely to be aware that more than two hundred years earlier a defining moment in America's history occurred there.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Robert D. Hormats (Author)
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- Dewey: 336.340973
Subjects edit
- Books › Business & Investing › International › Economic Conditions
- Books › History › Military › United States
- Books › History › Americas › United States
- Books › Business & Investing › Economics › Economic Conditions
- Books › Business & Investing › Economics › Economic History
- Books › Business & Investing › Economics › Economic Policy & Development
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