TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Ryan K.
TI  - Robert Morris's folly: the architectural and financial failures of an American founder 
T2  - The Lewis Walpole series in eighteenth-century culture and history
SN  - 9780300206975
AV  - E302.6.M8 
U1  - 973.3 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Morris, Robert,
KW  - Founding Fathers of the United States
KW  - Finance, Personal
KW  - Homes and haunts
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Philadelphia
KW  - Pères fondateurs des États-Unis
KW  - Finances personnelles
KW  - Résidences et lieux familiers
KW  - Pennsylvanie
KW  - Philadelphie
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - United States
KW  - State & Local
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 19th Century
KW  - fast
KW  - Homes
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; His capital -- His family -- His family -- His plans -- His house -- His architect -- His folly -- His entreaties -- His ruins -- His release
N2  - In 1798 Robert Morris - 'financier of the American Revolution', confidant of George Washington, former U.S. senator - plunged from the peaks of wealth and prestige into debtors'prison and public contempt. How could one of the richest men in the United States, one of only two founders who signed the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, suffer such a downfall? This book examines for the first time the extravagant Philadelphia town house Robert Morris built and its role in bringing about his ruin
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