The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar

Unabridged
Author: H.W. Brands
Narrator: Lloyd James
Genres: Business, History, United States
Publisher: Tantor Media
Date: November 2006
Length: 5 hours, 30 minutes
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Overview

Focusing on five "Money Men"--Alexander Hamilton, Jay Cooke, Jay Gould, Nicholas Biddle, and J.P. Morgan--historian H.W. Brands pens a riveting narrative of the men who fought over the lifeblood of American commerce and power.

Author Details

Author Details

Brands, H.W.

H.W. Brands is Distinguished Professor and holder of the Melbern G. Glasscock Chair in American History at Texas A&M University. He is the author of the New York Times Bestseller The First American, an acclaimed biography of Benjamin Franklin, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Biography, as well as T.R., a celebrated biography of Theodore Roosevelt. He lives in Austin, Texas.