Author: John Pendleton KennedyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Free trade
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A Review of Mr. Cambreleng's Report from the Committee of Commerce
Author: John Pendleton KennedyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Free trade
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A review of Mr. Camberleng's Report from the Committee of Commerce, in the House of Representatives, at the first session of the twenty first Congress. By Mephistopheles
Author: Political and Official Papers
Author: John Pendleton KennedyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
A Nation of Deadbeats
Author: Scott Reynolds NelsonPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307474321
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Pundits will argue that the 2008 financial crisis was the first crash in American history driven by consumer debt. But in this spirited, highly engaging account, Scott Reynolds Nelson demonstrates that consumer debt has underpinned almost every major financial panic in the nation’s history. From William Duer’s attempts to profit off the country’s post-Revolutionary War debt to an 1815 plan to sell English coats to Americans on credit, to the debt-fueled railroad expansion that precipitated the 1857 crash: in each case, the chain of banks, brokers, moneylenders, and insurance companies that separated borrowers and lenders made it impossible to distinguish good loans from bad. Bound up in this history are stories of national banks funded by smugglers, fistfights in Congress over the gold standard, America’s early dependence on British bankers, and how presidential campaigns were forged in controversies over private debt. An irreverent, wholly accessible, eye-opening book.
The Papers of Henry Clay
Author: Henry ClayPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813156726
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
Returning to Kentucky in the spring of 1829 after four years as secretary of state in the administration of John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay quickly regained the political dominance at home that would carry him to the U.S. Senate in 1831. Assuming leadership of the anti-Jackson forces, Senator Clay in 1832 mounted a spirited campaign for the presidency, advocating recharter of the national bank, high protective tariffs, and internal improvements, and alleging the administrative incompetence of Jackson and his cronies. Clay's defeat by the popular military hero was probably foreordained, but he emerged with sufficient national prestige to play the leading role in mediation of the nullification crisis of December 1832-March 1833. The battle over the constitutionality of the protective tariff, during which the words secession, invasion, and civil war were freely used, pitted Jackson and the power of the federal government against the states' rights politicians of South Carolina. Clay's masterful legislative compromise of 1833 defused a tense situation and brought him national applause as savior of the Union. Continuing his efforts to form a political coalition strong enough to defeat the Jacksonians, Clay was successful in a Senate resolution to censure the president for unconstitutional exercise of power in removing government deposits from the Bank of the United States. But as the election of 1836 drew near it became evident that the emerging coalition could not defeat Democrat Martin Van Buren, Jackson's hand- picked candidate; as the Reign of Jackson drew to a close, Clay could only view the national scene with dismay. Publication of this book was assisted by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Catalogue of the Astor Library (continuation).
Author: Astor LibraryCatalogue of the Astor Library
Author: Astor LibraryNiles' Weekly Register
Author: Catalogue of the library of the State historical society of Wisconsin, by D.S. and I. Durrie
Author: Daniel Steele DurriePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin: First [to fifth] supplements. [Additions from 1873-1887
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Author: State Historical Society of Wisconsin. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 742
Book Description
Includes titles on all subjects, some in foreign languages, later incorporated into Memorial Library.