Author: Gregory May
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621577643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
George Washington had Alexander Hamilton. Thomas Jefferson had Albert Gallatin. From internationally known tax expert and former Supreme Court law clerk Gregory May comes this long overdue biography of the remarkable immigrant who launched the fiscal policies that shaped the early Republic and the future of American politics. Not Alexander Hamilton---Albert Gallatin. To this day, the fight over fiscal policy lies at the center of American politics. Jefferson's champion in that fight was Albert Gallatin---a Swiss immigrant who served as Treasury Secretary for twelve years because he was the only man in Jefferson's party who understood finance well enough to reform Alexander Hamilton's system. A look at Gallatin's work---repealing internal taxes, restraining government spending, and repaying public debt---puts our current federal fiscal problems in perspective. The Jefferson Administration's enduring achievement was to contain the federal government by restraining its fiscal power. This was Gallatin's work. It set the pattern for federal finance until the Civil War, and it created a culture of fiscal responsibility that survived well into the twentieth century.
Jefferson's Treasure
Author: Gregory May
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621577643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
George Washington had Alexander Hamilton. Thomas Jefferson had Albert Gallatin. From internationally known tax expert and former Supreme Court law clerk Gregory May comes this long overdue biography of the remarkable immigrant who launched the fiscal policies that shaped the early Republic and the future of American politics. Not Alexander Hamilton---Albert Gallatin. To this day, the fight over fiscal policy lies at the center of American politics. Jefferson's champion in that fight was Albert Gallatin---a Swiss immigrant who served as Treasury Secretary for twelve years because he was the only man in Jefferson's party who understood finance well enough to reform Alexander Hamilton's system. A look at Gallatin's work---repealing internal taxes, restraining government spending, and repaying public debt---puts our current federal fiscal problems in perspective. The Jefferson Administration's enduring achievement was to contain the federal government by restraining its fiscal power. This was Gallatin's work. It set the pattern for federal finance until the Civil War, and it created a culture of fiscal responsibility that survived well into the twentieth century.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1621577643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
George Washington had Alexander Hamilton. Thomas Jefferson had Albert Gallatin. From internationally known tax expert and former Supreme Court law clerk Gregory May comes this long overdue biography of the remarkable immigrant who launched the fiscal policies that shaped the early Republic and the future of American politics. Not Alexander Hamilton---Albert Gallatin. To this day, the fight over fiscal policy lies at the center of American politics. Jefferson's champion in that fight was Albert Gallatin---a Swiss immigrant who served as Treasury Secretary for twelve years because he was the only man in Jefferson's party who understood finance well enough to reform Alexander Hamilton's system. A look at Gallatin's work---repealing internal taxes, restraining government spending, and repaying public debt---puts our current federal fiscal problems in perspective. The Jefferson Administration's enduring achievement was to contain the federal government by restraining its fiscal power. This was Gallatin's work. It set the pattern for federal finance until the Civil War, and it created a culture of fiscal responsibility that survived well into the twentieth century.
Gallatin
Author: Nicholas Dungan
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814721117
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Examines the life of statesman Albert Gallatin and discusses his role in the formation of the United States.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814721117
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Examines the life of statesman Albert Gallatin and discusses his role in the formation of the United States.
Albert Gallatin
Author: Raymond Walters
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822974088
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Raymond Walters, Jr. presents the definitive biography of Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), recounting sixty years that the Swiss-born diplomat served his adopted country as a congressional leader, Secretary of the Treasury, financier, and ambassador. Gallatin was a founder of the House Committee on Finance (later the Ways and Means Committee), a member of the new Democratic-Republican Party, and an active politician who opposed the Federalist Party and its programs, while also helping to bring about the election of Thomas Jefferson.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN: 0822974088
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Raymond Walters, Jr. presents the definitive biography of Albert Gallatin (1761-1849), recounting sixty years that the Swiss-born diplomat served his adopted country as a congressional leader, Secretary of the Treasury, financier, and ambassador. Gallatin was a founder of the House Committee on Finance (later the Ways and Means Committee), a member of the new Democratic-Republican Party, and an active politician who opposed the Federalist Party and its programs, while also helping to bring about the election of Thomas Jefferson.
The Life of Albert Gallatin
Author: Henry Adams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
The Founders and Finance
Author: Thomas K. McCraw
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674071352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
In 1776 the United States government started out on a shoestring and quickly went bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war’s end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders and Finance is the first book to tell the story of how foreign-born financial specialists—immigrants—solved the fiscal crisis and set the United States on a path to long-term economic success. Pulitzer Prize–winning author Thomas K. McCraw analyzes the skills and worldliness of Alexander Hamilton (from the Danish Virgin Islands), Albert Gallatin (from the Republic of Geneva), and other immigrant founders who guided the nation to prosperity. Their expertise with liquid capital far exceeded that of native-born plantation owners Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, who well understood the management of land and slaves but had only a vague knowledge of financial instruments—currencies, stocks, and bonds. The very rootlessness of America’s immigrant leaders gave them a better understanding of money, credit, and banks, and the way each could be made to serve the public good. The remarkable financial innovations designed by Hamilton, Gallatin, and other immigrants enabled the United States to control its debts, to pay for the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, and—barely—to fight the War of 1812, which preserved the nation’s hard-won independence from Britain.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674071352
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
In 1776 the United States government started out on a shoestring and quickly went bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war’s end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders and Finance is the first book to tell the story of how foreign-born financial specialists—immigrants—solved the fiscal crisis and set the United States on a path to long-term economic success. Pulitzer Prize–winning author Thomas K. McCraw analyzes the skills and worldliness of Alexander Hamilton (from the Danish Virgin Islands), Albert Gallatin (from the Republic of Geneva), and other immigrant founders who guided the nation to prosperity. Their expertise with liquid capital far exceeded that of native-born plantation owners Washington, Jefferson, and Madison, who well understood the management of land and slaves but had only a vague knowledge of financial instruments—currencies, stocks, and bonds. The very rootlessness of America’s immigrant leaders gave them a better understanding of money, credit, and banks, and the way each could be made to serve the public good. The remarkable financial innovations designed by Hamilton, Gallatin, and other immigrants enabled the United States to control its debts, to pay for the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, and—barely—to fight the War of 1812, which preserved the nation’s hard-won independence from Britain.
A Synopsis of the Indian Tribes Within the United States East of the Rocky Mountains, and in the British and Russian Possessions in North America
Author: Albert Gallatin
Publisher: Arx Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1889758809
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Originally published: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1836. In series: Archaeologia Americana; v. 2.
Publisher: Arx Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1889758809
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Originally published: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1836. In series: Archaeologia Americana; v. 2.
Peace with Mexico
Author: Albert Gallatin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Art and the Great War
Author: Albert Eugene Gallatin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
ABE: Contents of this original copy of World War I art are clean with 100 full-page reproductions of paintings, sketches, propaganda posters and cartoons by artists from America, Canada, France and the Netherlands. Rear end-pages marred by removal of usual pocket and due slip. Boards have been reinforced at all corners and edges. Hinges also reinforced. Accompanying text describes both the background of the artists and the work combined with the mood, concerns and ethics of the era. Art. History. Bookseller Inventory # 004919.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1914-1918
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
ABE: Contents of this original copy of World War I art are clean with 100 full-page reproductions of paintings, sketches, propaganda posters and cartoons by artists from America, Canada, France and the Netherlands. Rear end-pages marred by removal of usual pocket and due slip. Boards have been reinforced at all corners and edges. Hinges also reinforced. Accompanying text describes both the background of the artists and the work combined with the mood, concerns and ethics of the era. Art. History. Bookseller Inventory # 004919.
The Symbolism of Freemasonry
Author: Albert Gallatin Mackey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Freemasonry
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Museum of Living Art
Author: Gallery of Living Art
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description