Robert Morris's folly : the architectural and financial failures of an American founder /

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...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Ryan K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2014.
Series:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
Subjects:
Morris, Robert, > 1734-1806 > Finance, Personal.
Morris, Robert, > 1734-1806 > Homes and haunts > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Morris, Robert, > 1734-1806.
Founding Fathers of the United States > Finance, Personal.
Founding Fathers of the United States > Homes and haunts > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Pères fondateurs des États-Unis > Finances personnelles.
Pères fondateurs des États-Unis > Résidences et lieux familiers > Pennsylvanie > Philadelphie.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > General.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Finance, Personal.
Homes.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
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