Robert Morris's folly : the architectural and financial failures of an American founder / Ryan K. Smith.
Material type: TextSeries: Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and historyPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2014.Description: 1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780300206975
- 0300206976
- 9781322094472
- 1322094470
- Morris, Robert, 1734-1806 -- Finance, Personal
- Morris, Robert, 1734-1806 -- Homes and haunts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Morris, Robert, 1734-1806
- Founding Fathers of the United States -- Finance, Personal
- Founding Fathers of the United States -- Homes and haunts -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Pères fondateurs des États-Unis -- Finances personnelles
- Pères fondateurs des États-Unis -- Résidences et lieux familiers -- Pennsylvanie -- Philadelphie
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General
- HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century
- Finance, Personal
- Homes
- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- 973.3 23
- E302.6.M8
- BIO006000 | HIS036040 | HIS054000
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
His capital -- His family -- His family -- His plans -- His house -- His architect -- His folly -- His entreaties -- His ruins -- His release.
In 1798 Robert Morris - 'financier of the American Revolution', confidant of George Washington, former U.S. senator - plunged from the peaks of wealth and prestige into debtors'prison and public contempt. How could one of the richest men in the United States, one of only two founders who signed the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, suffer such a downfall? This book examines for the first time the extravagant Philadelphia town house Robert Morris built and its role in bringing about his ruin.
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