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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on February 2, 2007
Enterprise and Society 2007 8(1):200-202; doi:10.1093/es/khm016
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Copyright © The Author 2007. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference.

Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen. Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich

Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen. Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2006. 240 pp. ISBN 0-226-91068-7, $25.00 (cloth)

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Robert E. Wright and David J. Cowen's book, Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich, has two chief themes, neatly separated by the colon in the book's title. The first is to introduce the reader to America's financial founding fathers. These men, Alexander Hamilton being perhaps the most celebrated, transformed the American financial system. The financial institutions, which Americans take today for granted—banks, insurance companies, and the like—were practically nonexistent in America before the Revolution, and constructing . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Ronald W. Michener

University of Virginia


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