Nicholas Biddle in Greece The Journals and Letters Of 1806

Name: Nicholas Biddle in Greece The Journals and Letters Of 1806
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ISBN: 9780271009148

ISBN-10: 0271009144

ISBN-13: 9780271009148

Edition: 1993

Authors: R. A. McNeal

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Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844) was a noted politician and financier in early nineteenth-century America. At eighteen, he went to Europe as the secretary of the American minister to France. He also made the acquaintance of James Monroe when Monroe was the American ambassador to London. He was later elected to the state legislature and senate of Pennsylvania. Ultimately he became a director and then the president of the Bank of the United States.In the course of a sojourn to Europe, Biddle sailed to Greece, then a part of the Ottoman Empire. Half of the journal he kept on the trip has only recently been discovered, and the other half is known to only a few people because it is still in private…

Book details

List price: $71.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Publication date: 12/6/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 252
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

While preparing this book, R. A. McNeal was Visiting Associate Professor of Classics at Franklin and Marshall College and is the author of Law and Rhetoric in the Crito (1992).