Book notes: The banker who made America: Thomas Willing and the rise of the American financial aristocracy, 1731–1821, by Richard Vague
Well-researched book details how Thomas Willing played a key role in winning the US war of independence
Richard Vague, The banker who made America: Thomas Willing and the rise of the American financial aristocracy, 1731–1821, Polity, 2026, 368 pages
In The banker who made America, author Richard Vague seeks to bring Thomas Willing out from under the shadow of Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury. Financial historians credit Hamilton with the successful refunding and restructuring of the Revolutionary War debt and the establishment of the first US central bank, the Bank of the
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