Robert E. Wright, "One Nation Under Debt: Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe"
English | ISBN: 0071543937 | 2008 | PDF | 256 pages | 3,95 mb
Like its current citizens, the United States was born in debt-a debt so deep that it threatened to destroy the young nation. Thomas Jefferson considered the national debt a monstrous fraud on posterity, while Alexander Hamilton believed debt would help America prosper. Both, as it turns out, were right.