Robert Morris's folly : the architectural and financial failures of an American founder /
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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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2014. |
| Series: | Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history.
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |