Nation of Deadbeats An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters

Name: Nation of Deadbeats An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters
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ISBN: 9780307474322

ISBN-10: 0307474321

ISBN-13: 9780307474322

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Authors: Scott Reynolds Nelson

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The story of America is a story of dreamers and defaulters. It is also a story of dramatic financial panics that defined the nation, created its political parties, and forced tens of thousands to escape their creditors to new towns in Texas, Florida, and California. As far back as 1792, these panics boiled down to one simple question: Would Americans pay their debts—or were we just a nation of deadbeats?From the merchant William Duer’s attempts to speculate on post–Revolutionary War debt, to an ill-conceived 1815 plan to sell English coats to Americans on credit, to the debt-fueled railroad expansion that precipitated the Panic of 1857, Scott Reynolds Nelson offers a crash course in…

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List price: $30.99
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/4/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.28" wide x 7.99" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.748



Preface A Republic of Deadbeats


A Few Technical Terms



Duer's Disgrace



A Botanizing Excursion



Monkey Jackets, the Uncorked Mississippi, and the Birth of Caterpillar Banks



The Second Bank, the Monkey Jacket War, and Tenskwatawa's Revenge



The Politics of Panic, the Economics of Rags



Leviathan



Of Swamps and Calculus



Ceres Americana



A Storm of Wheat



Crosses of Gold



Who Put the Roar in the Roaring Twenties?



Conclusions, Conclusions


Postscript Here Be Dragons: What's Wrong with How Historians and Economists Have Written About Financial Panics


Acknowledgments


Notes


Photographic Credits


Index