money did a lot of the talking…

Book review:

The Founders’ Fortunes:

How Money Shaped the Birth of America

by Willard Sterne Randall

New York: Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022

324 pages

Randall offers details about the wealth—and intermittent lack thereof—of a number of the so-called “Founding Fathers,” and how persistently those men looked out for their own financial interests throughout the Revolutionary era.

Presumptively you aren’t surprised to learn about these details.

There’s plenty more to learn when you read The Founders’ Fortunes.

The matter-of-fact point is that these men were looking out for themselves at the same time that they were creating the independent United States of America.

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Book review: An Empire Divided

King George and his ministers

wanted the Caribbean sugar islands

more than they wanted the 13 colonies…

by Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy

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