| The Price of Liberty: Paying for America's Wars Contributor(s): Hormats, Robert D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0805087230 ISBN-13: 9780805087239 Publisher: Holt Paperbacks OUR PRICE: $21.59 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2008 Annotation: "Admirably comprehensive . . . "The Price of Liberty "shows that [Hormats] knows his history."--Niall Ferguson, "The Wall Street Journal" America's first secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, identified the Revolutionary War debt as a threat to the nation's very existence. Ever since, Hamilton's principles for securing the country through sound finances have guided leaders from Madison and Lincoln to FDR and George H. W. Bush as they have fought to protect the United States--with the invention of the greenback, a progressive income tax, Victory Bond campaigns, and cost-sharing with allies. In this bracing work of history, Robert D. Hormats, one of America's leading experts on international finance, argues that the United States must realign its policies on taxes, defense spending, Social Security, Medicare, and oil dependency to safeguard the nation in the coming decades. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - General - History | Military - United States - Business & Economics | Economic History |
| Dewey: 336.340 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.10 lbs) 368 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Admirably comprehensive . . . The Price of Liberty shows that [Hormats] knows his history.--Niall Ferguson, The Wall Street Journal America's first secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, identified the Revolutionary War debt as a threat to the nation's very existence. Ever since, Hamilton's principles for securing the country through sound finances have guided leaders from Madison and Lincoln to FDR and George H. W. Bush as they have fought to protect the United States--with the invention of the greenback, a progressive income tax, Victory Bond campaigns, and cost-sharing with allies. In this bracing work of history, Robert D. Hormats, one of America's leading experts on international finance, argues that the United States must realign its policies on taxes, defense spending, Social Security, Medicare, and oil dependency to safeguard the nation in the coming decades. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hormats, Robert D.: - Robert D. Hormats is the vice chairman of Goldman Sachs (International) and a managing director of Goldman, Sachs & Co. He has served in numerous presidential administrations and is a former member of the board of directors of the Council on Foreign Relations. His articles appear in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The New York Times, and Foreign Affairs. He lives in New York City. |
