King of the Alley: William Duer, Politician, Entrepreneur, and Speculator, 1768-1799, Memoirs, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 202)

by Robert Francis Jones

William Duer belonged to the middle ranks of those who led America to success in her struggle for independence, standing just behind such men as John Jay and Robert R. Livingston. Duer, as a member of the N.Y. State Convention and the Continental Congress, as Sec. to the Board of Treasury under the Confed. and Assist. to the Sec. of the Treasury when the fed. govt. was organized, had a role in all the significant changes which occurred during the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871692023
• ISBN13: 9780871692023
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"