Financial Founding Fathers: The Men Who Made America Rich

Economists and citizens need to read this book! It's chapter on the financial crisis of 1837 saved me millions of $ in 2007 and 2008. Read this book and you'll have a much better appreciation of financial systems, in both their strengths and weaknesses. Adding to the economic history, the book weaves in the personal histories of the founders. Quirky and eccentric, they, like Hamilton, somehow washed up on the shores of what was to be the United States--and they and their ideas prospered. These distinct and eccentric founders built a new system. How did they do it? The book lends great insight into the distinct country that was the United States. People everywhere must have dreams, but in the U.S. a financial system developed to fund those dreams. Let's hope we still have remnants of the liberty in that early U.S. and people somewhere like those early founders.