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David K. Thomson

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Jubilee Jim Fisk and the Great Civil War Score

In 1865, a failed stockbroker tries to pull off one of the boldest financial schemes in American history: the original big short.

by David K. Thomson via Boston Globe Magazine on April 22, 2020

Bonds of War: How Civil War Financial Agents Sold the World on the Union

David K. Thomson

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Political cartoon of the Lincoln Administration, reading "Running the 'Machine'", 1864.

Blues, Grays & Greenbacks

How Lincoln's administration financed the Civil War and transformed the nation's decentralized economy into the global juggernaut of the postwar centuries.

by Nicholas Guyatt via New York Review of Books on May 4, 2023

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