Founding Finance: How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation (Discovering America)
"For William Hogeland, thinking about history is an act of moral inquiry and high citizenship. A searching and original voice." Rick Perlstein author of Nixonland "Hogeland unravels complex economic issues, shifting political ideologies, and legal maneuverings with uncommon skill, and he has brought to life in beautifully polished prose a cast of characters." Gary B. Nash, Professor of History and Director of the National Center for History in the Schools, UCLA "Hogeland's is an accessible account of the way men like Hamilton, Washington, Madison and Morris constructed the American state in order to protect and further their class interests - and, importantly, of the radical egalitarian movements they had to ruthlessly crush in the process." - Tom Cutterham, Jacobin