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Robert Morris's folly : the architectural and financial failures of an American founder / Ryan K. Smith.

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In 1798 Robert Morris - 'financier of the American Revolution', confidant of George Washington, former U.S. senator - plunged from the peaks of wealth and prestige into debtors'prison and public contempt. How could one of the richest men in the United States, one of only two founders...

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Main Author: Smith, Ryan K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2014.
Series:Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
Subjects:
Morris, Robert, > 1734-1806 > Finance, Personal.
Morris, Robert, > 1734-1806 > Homes and haunts > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Founding Fathers of the United States > Finance, Personal.
Founding Fathers of the United States > Homes and haunts > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.
Morris, Robert, > 1734-1806.
Finance, Personal.
Homes.
Pennsylvania > Philadelphia.

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