The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington's Times (repost)
Charles Royster, "The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company: A Story of George Washington's Times"
1999 | ISBN: 0679433457, 0679753052 | 640 pages | EPUB, MOBI, AZW3 | 15 MB
1999 | ISBN: 0679433457, 0679753052 | 640 pages | EPUB, MOBI, AZW3 | 15 MB
From historian Charles Royster–winner of the Francis Parkman, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes–comes the history of one of eighteenth-century America's most fantastic land speculation deals: William Byrd's scheme to develop 900 square miles of swamp on the Virginia-North Carolina border and create fabulous wealth for himself and other shareholders, including George Washington.
Royster scrupulously follows the paper trail through the byways of transatlantic deal-cutting, providing a rare view of early American economic culture. Elegantly written and impressively researched, The Fabulous History of the Dismal Swamp Company is an eye-opening account of greed, folly, and venture capitalism in the revolutionary era.