Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union
(Part of the Civil War America Series)
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How does one package and sell confidence in the stability of a nation riven by civil strife? This was the question that loomed before the Philadelphia financial house of Jay Cooke & Company, entrusted by the US government with an unprecedented sale of bonds to finance the Union war effort in the early days of the American Civil War. How the government and its agents marketed these bonds revealed a version of the war the public was willing to buy and...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1469666618
ISBN13:9781469666617
Release Date:April 2022
Publisher:University of North Carolina Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.92 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.2" x 9.4"
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