Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution

by Charles Rappleye

Book Overview

In this biography, the acclaimed author of Sons of Providence , winner of the 2007 George Wash- ington Book Prize, recovers an immensely important part of the founding drama of the country in the story of Robert Morris, the man who financed Washington's armies and the American Revolution. Morris started life in the colonies as an apprentice in a counting house. By the time of the Revolution he was a rich man, a commercial and social leader in Philadelphia...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1416570918
• ISBN13: 9781416570912
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 625 Pages
• Weight: 2.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"