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The Founders and Finance

How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy

Thomas K. McCraw

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$35.00 • £28.95 • €31.50

ISBN 9780674066922

Publication Date: 10/15/2012

496 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Thomas K. McCraw was Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History.

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In the New York Times, read Thomas McCraw’s essays on the vital role innovative immigrants played in America’s financial and economic history and on how Alexander Hamilton dealt with his own era’s fiscal cliff
Read a Harvard Business School Q&A with McCraw
Read the New York Times obituary for Professor McCraw

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A Bloomberg News Favorite Book of 2013

A Financial Advisor Book of the Year, 2013

A Wall Street Journal Best Nonfiction Book of 2012

A Wall Street Journal Holiday Gift Pick, 2012

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