When Washington Shut Down Wall Street : : The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America's Monetary Supremacy /

When Washington Shut Down Wall Street : : The Great Financial Crisis of 1914 and the Origins of America's Monetary Supremacy / / William L. Silber.

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When Washington Shut Down Wall Street unfolds like a mystery story. It traces Treasury Secretary William Gibbs McAdoo's triumph over a monetary crisis at the outbreak of World War I that threatened the United States with financial disaster. The biggest gold outflow in a generation imperiled Ame...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Silber, William L.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©2008
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 2 halftones. 16 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. The Legacy of 1914
  • CHAPTER ONE. The Opening Salvo
  • CHAPTER TWO. The European Gold Rush
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Nightmare of 1907
  • CHAPTER FOUR. Unlocking Emergency Currency
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Sterling Steals the Spotlight
  • CHAPTER SIX. New Street Defies McAdoo
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Rescue
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. End Game
  • CHAPTER NINE. Birth of a Financial Superpower
  • EPILOGUE. Blueprint for Crisis Control
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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