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The Rise and Fall of a Frontier Entrepreneur: Benjamin Rathbun, "Master Builder and Architect" (in English)
Roger Whitman (Author)
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Syracuse University Press
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The Rise and Fall of a Frontier Entrepreneur: Benjamin Rathbun, "Master Builder and Architect" (in English) - Roger Whitman
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Synopsis "The Rise and Fall of a Frontier Entrepreneur: Benjamin Rathbun, "Master Builder and Architect" (in English)"
The story of Benjamin Rathbun’s ruin reads like a primer forthe scandals and studied neglect that triggered America’seconomic crisis today. Banker, builder and architect, a reveredcitizen of the flourishing American northwestern frontier―inthe end he was also a convicted forger. And his forgeries wereof such gravity that they added momentum to the Panic of1837, the rapid collapse of a system of credit and debt thatbrought down the young nation’s financial system.Rathbun was surely a rascal, but a rascal somehow ofgreat decency. In Buffalo, a half-built landscape was strewnwith Rathbun’s broken vision. Concerned for the thousandswho had depended upon him, he begged for release fromjail long enough to fix the damage. Instead, he spent fiveyears in prison shouldering the blame for others who fled toTexas, beyond the reach of American law.
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