An edition of Robert Morris (2010)

Robert Morris

financier of the American Revolution

1st Simon & Schuster hardcover [ed.].

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An edition of Robert Morris (2010)

Robert Morris

financier of the American Revolution

1st Simon & Schuster hardcover [ed.].

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  • 4 Want to read

In this biography, the acclaimed author of Sons of Providence, winner of the 2007 George Washington 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. - Jacket flap.

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Subjects

Governors, Politics and government, Biography, History, Biographies, Governors, united states, United states, history, revolution, 1775-1783, biography, United states, politics and government, biography, Morris, robert, 1734-1806

People

Robert Morris (1734-1806)

Places

United States, Pennsylvania

Times

Revolution, 1775-1783

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2010, Simon & Schuster
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Part 1 : Revolutions.
"A character I am proud of"
Suing for peace, arming for war
Independence
War and politics
Master of the secret network
Congress in exile
The return of Silas Deane
Backlash
Part 2 : The financier.
Private fortune, public penury
The Office of Finance
Yorktown
Executive action
Fighting for funds
A desperate gambit
Final settlements
Part 3 : The new republic.
The great bank debate
The Constitution
The first federal Congress
The Compromise of 1790
Ruin
Epilogue

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 585-601) and index.

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
973.3092, B
Library of Congress
E302.6.M8 R37 2010

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Hardcover
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x, 625 p. :
Number of pages
625
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25 x x centimeters

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OL25311295M
ISBN 10
1416570918
ISBN 13
9781416570912
LCCN
2010020461
OCLC/WorldCat
535493123
Goodreads
7775702

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