Interview with Richard Vague author of The Banker Who Made America
This episode is an interview with author Richard Vague. We discuss his new book The Banker Who Made America: Thomas Willing and the rise of the American financial aristocracy. The book details the life of Thomas Willing a banker, merchant trader, and politician who bankrolled the American revolution and then fundamentally shaped the financial architecture of the new republic. Thomas Willing got his start as a partner in Willing, Morris and Company in 1757. He became mayor of Philadelphia in 1763. From 1781 to 1791 he served as President of the Bank of North America, the first bank in America…
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