Price of Liberty Paying for America's Wars

Name: Price of Liberty Paying for America's Wars
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ISBN: 9780805087239

ISBN-10: 0805087230

ISBN-13: 9780805087239

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Authors: Robert D. Hormats

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“Admirably comprehensive . . .The Price of Libertyshows that [Hormats] knows his history.”—Niall Ferguson,The Wall Street Journal nbsp; America’s first secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, identified the Revolutionary War debt as a threat to the nation’s very existence. Ever since, Hamilton’s principles for securing the country through sound finances have guided leaders from Madison and Lincoln to FDR and George H. W. Bush as they have fought to protect the United States—with the invention of the greenback, a progressive income tax, Victory Bond campaigns, and cost-sharing with allies. nbsp; In this bracing work of history, Robert D. Hormats, one of America’s leading experts on…

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List price: $23.99
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 1/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.81" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English



Introduction: A Country Born of War and Debt



Hamilton's Vision: Securing the Nation's Finances



The First Great Test: Financial Sabotage and the War of 1812



The Fiery Trial: A Tax to Save the Union



Capitalizing Patriotism: Progressive Finance During World War I



A Righteous Might: Shared Sacrifice During World War II



"A Prolonged and Complex Struggle": The Threat of American Bankruptcy in the Cold War



"Hard and Inescapable Facts": The Great Society Versus the Vietnam War



Bankrupting Communism: The Reagan Rearmament and Deficit Finance



New Enemies: Asymmetrical Threats and the Long War on Terrorism


Conclusion: The Price of a Long War


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index