Category: History: U.S.: 19th Century

Copyright/published Year: 2018 by Regnery

ISBN: 1621576450

Binding: Hardcover

Description: From internationally known tax expert and former Supreme Court ì law clerk Gregory May comes this long overdue biography of the ì remarkable immigrant who launched the fiscal policies that shaped ì the early Republic and the future of American politics. Not ì Alexander Hamilton---Albert Gallatin. To this day, the fight over ì fiscal policy lies at the center of American politics. ì Jefferson's champion in that fight was Albert Gallatin---a Swiss ì immigrant who served as Treasury Secretary for twelve years ì because he was the only man in Jefferson's party who understood ì finance well enough to reform Alexander Hamilton's system. A look ì at Gallatin's work---repealing internal taxes, restraining ì government spending, and repaying public debt---puts our current ì federal fiscal problems in perspective. The Jefferson ì Administration's enduring achievement was to contain the federal ì government by restraining its fiscal power. This was Gallatin's ì work. It set the pattern for federal finance until the Civil War, ì and it created a culture of fiscal responsibility that survived ì well into the twentieth century.

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This is a used book in Very good condition.

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Lightly read, if at all. Clean cover with minor shelfwear to top of dust jacket. Short remainder slash on page bottoms