[Review] Ways and Means (Roger Lowenstein) Summarized.

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Ways and Means (Roger Lowenstein) - Amazon USA Store: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096WY7KH1?tag=9natree-20 - Amazon Worldwide Store: https://global.buys.trade/Ways-and-Means-Roger-Lowenstein.html - Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/ways-and-means-lincoln-and-his-cabinet-and/id1579443935?itsct=books_box_link&itscg=30200&ls=1&at=1001l3bAw&ct=9natree - eBay: https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=Ways+and+Means+Roger+Lowenstein+&mkcid=1&mkrid=711-53200-19255-0&siteid=0&campid=5339060787&customid=9natree&toolid=10001&mkevt=1 - Read more: https://english.9natree.com/read/B096WY7KH1/ #Unionwarfinancing #SalmonPChase #NationalBankingAct #greenbacks #CivilWarstatecentralization #WaysandMeans Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War by Roger Lowenstein is a narrative history and financial analysis of how the Union paid for the Civil War. Rather than centering only on battles or political speeches, the book examines the practical machinery that made the war possible: taxation, borrowing, paper money, and the creation of a more centralized federal financial system. Lowenstein focuses on Abraham Lincoln, Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase, congressional leaders, and bankers as they confronted a crisis that threatened both military survival and economic collapse. The book shows that financing the war was not a secondary issue but a transformative national project that helped reshape the American state. Written for a general audience, it explains complex fiscal policy in clear terms while connecting monetary decisions to larger questions of power, nation-building, slavery, and the modernization of the United States.

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