Robert Morris: The Patriot Who Paid for Washington's War

By Harlow Giles Unger

George Washington called Robert Morris his "magick money" man." Morris was America's richest man in 1776. The inventor of modern capitalism, he bought and sold every imaginable commodity, sending waves of currencies and coins bounding over oceans, lapping every shore, with the stroke of his pen. He accumulated unimaginable wealth, and risked it all financing Washington's Continental Army in the Revolutionary War. A daring patriot as well as a daring capitalist, Morris rose out of the gutters of Liverpool, England. to untold wealth in Philadelphia, where he risked his last penny to preserve American freedom and the free enterprise system. An author of the Constitution, he insisted on federal control of interstate trade, ending state tariffs on out-of-state products and creating the world's first common market. While Washington worked the military miracle that created our country, his close friend Robert Morris worked the financial miracle that made Washington's miracle possible and created the richest economy in world history.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08D4V8FQK
• ISBN13: 9798667342625
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"