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Sovereignty and an Empty Purse: Banks and Politics in the Civil War
By (Author) Bray Hammond
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
332.10973
Hardback
412
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
482g
A sequel to his Pulitzer Prize-winning Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War, this book by Bray Hammond focuses on how Washington struggled financially to settle the Civil War and how its measures spurred the growth of federal government. Originally published in 1970. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print
Bray Hammond (1886-1968) was Assistant Secretary of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 1944 to 1950.