William G McAdoo
Crowded Years, The reminiscences of William G McAdoo
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1931 Crowded Years, The reminiscences of William G McAdoo, with illustrations, pub Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1931. Green cloth hardcover, 9 1/2 x 6 1/2, 542pp, in VG condition, cover a little soiled and su nned, corners lightly bumped, no DJ. William McAdoo as a young lawyer in Knoxville, Tennessee, lost his savings in an audacious project to convert the Knoxville bus system from mule-driven to electric , mortgaged his wife's house and went to New York, where he built tunnels under the Hudson river and became a railroad executive. He was Secretary of the Treasury in the Woodrow Wilson adminstration a nd instrumental in the founding of the Federal Reserve system. All told in a very breezy and readable style, full of interesting tidbits of American history.
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