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The price of liberty : paying for America's wars
- Title
- The price of liberty : paying for America's wars / Robert D. Hormats.
- Author
- Hormats, Robert D.
- Publication
- New York : Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2007.
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Details
- Description
- xxi, 344 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- A leading international finance expert reveals how our national security depends on our financial security. America's first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, identified the Revolutionary War debt as a threat to the nation's creditworthiness and its very existence. In response, he established financial principles for securing the country--principles that endure to this day. Here, one of America's leading experts on international finance shows how leaders from Madison and Lincoln to FDR and Reagan have followed Hamilton's ideals. Drawing on these historical lessons, Hormats argues that the rampant borrowing to pay for the war in Iraq and the short-sighted tax cuts in the face of a long-term war on terrorism run counter to American tradition and place our country's security in peril.--From publisher description.
- Subjects
- United States
- Finance, Public
- United States > Department of Defense
- Debts, Public
- United States > Armed Forces > Appropriations and expenditures
- National security > Finance
- United States > Department of Defense > Appropriations and expenditures
- Debts, Public > United States
- Expenditures, Public
- National security > United States > Finance > History
- Armed Forces > Appropriations and expenditures
- War > Economic aspects > United States
- Finance, Public > United States > History
- History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-330) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Hamilton's vision -- The first great test -- The fiery trial -- Capitalizing patriotism -- A righteous might -- "A prolonged and complex struggle" -- "Hard inescapable facts" -- Bankrupting communism -- New enemies -- Conclusion.
- Call Number
- JBE 17-663
- ISBN
- 9780805082531
- 9780805087239
- 0805087230
- 0805082530
- LCCN
- 2006051416
- OCLC
- 74569837
- Author
- Hormats, Robert D.
- Title
- The price of liberty : paying for America's wars / Robert D. Hormats.
- Imprint
- New York : Times Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2007.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 328-330) and index.
- Connect to:
- Research Call Number
- JBE 17-663