Money in American Politics
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8408-6 (ISBN)
The people who run our government are affected by money just like the rest of us. Over the years, many of these officials have worried about meeting mortgage payments, holding off creditors, and avoiding bankruptcy. Others made fortunes by devoting their time to supervising their business interests. Either way, these distractions affected the lives of everyday citizens--from the price of shirts to the decisions for war or peace. In school, students are taught about governmental principles underlying political controversies, but instructors seldom talk about money that presidents and cabinet members stood to gain or lose, depending on who prevailed in a political dispute. This book will help fill the gaps in that knowledge. To ignore the business activities of our leaders is to ignore most of their adult lives. Having such awareness allows voters to see motivations in government decisions that may otherwise be obscure. Concentrating on presidents and cabinet members, from the birth of the U.S. through the Carter administration, this book tells how they and their associates gained and lost wealth, and how this affected their nation's well-being.
Richard Lawrence Miller is a retired community organizer and public radio producer. He lives in Kansas City, Missouri.
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1
Colonial Antecedents
Revolution
Frontier Real Estate
Constitution
Chapter 2
Banks
Whiskey Rebellion
Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures
Jay Treaty
XYZ Affair
Chapter 3
Louisiana Purchase
Burr Murders Hamilton
War of 1812
Internal Improvements
Banks Again
Chapter 4
American Indians in the Jackson Era
Tippecanoe
And Tyler, Too
Mexican War
Chapter 5
California Gold
Quicksilver
Slavery
Worker Rights
Chapter 6
Transportation
Cotton
Railroads
Civil War
Real Estate
Chapter 7
Abraham Lincoln’s Estate
Andrew Johnson Impeachment
Presidency of Grant
Election of 1876
Rutherford Hayes
Chapter 8
Pennsylvania Railroad
Marine Industry
James Garfield
Robert Lincoln
Pullman Railroad Cars
Chapter 9
Chester Arthur
Young Theodore Roosevelt
Grover Cleveland
Tobacco
Railroads Again
Chapter 10
Sherman Anti-Trust Law
Lumber
Benjamin Harrison
Alaskan Seals
Closing the Frontier
Chapter 11
Department Stores and Mail Order Houses
Telegraph and Telephone
Gas
Electricity
The Cross of Gold
Chapter 12
William McKinley
Private Clubs
China
Chapter 13
Theodore Roosevelt
Steel
Panic of 1907
Northern Securities
Santa Fe Railroad
Meat
Kuhn, Loeb Bank
Panama Canal
Chapter 14
William Howard Taft
Philippines
Bull Moose Campaign
Woodrow Wilson
National City Bank
Mexico
World War I
World War I Finance
Chapter 15
Herbert Hoover
Election of 1920
Warren G. Harding
Newspapers
Insurance
Chapter 16
“Mellon’s Millions”
Aluminum
Banking
Coal
Oil
Teapot Dome
Chapter 17
Calvin Coolidge
Dawes’ Dollars
Stock Market Crash
FDR
Atomic Energy
Chapter 18
Harry Truman
Eisenhower
Tidelands Oil
Dixon-Yates Contract
Hanna Mining
Chapter 19
General Motors
World War I Strikes Again
J.P. Stevens
Cuba
Chapter 20
JFK
Motion Pictures
Real Estate
Textiles
Insurance Again
Chapter 21
Aviation
Automobiles
Marine Industry Again
Rockefeller Foundation
Chapter 22
LBJ
Brown & Root
Real Estate
Broadcasting
Chapter 23
Richard Nixon
Chile
China Again
Gerald Ford
Chapter 24
Jimmy Carter
Coca-Cola
Aviation Again
Banks Yet Again
Lumber Again
Coal Again
The Carter Administration Summed Up
Epilogue: A Shadow on the Wall
Notes
Works Cited
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 26.03.2021 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 350 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4766-8408-1 / 1476684081 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4766-8408-6 / 9781476684086 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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