1PeterK712
Read "Robert Morris" and the author is Robert Morris but it is not an autobiography. It is 600 pages, sometimes tedious, of the financing of the Revolutionary War. Morris was the Treasurer of the Continental Congress. The euphoria and enthusiasm of the States and their legislatures for leaving Great Britain on July 4th 1776 and their promise to pay for a warqu ickly evaporated when it came time to send the money. He wheeled and dealed with debt from the French, Dutch and Spanish often intermingling his own money to help pay for food, uniforms, munitions for the Revolution's armies. Think Valley Forge.Remember under the Articles of Confederation there was no power in the Federal government to tax-there was not even a common currency. It's long but in the telling of financial dire straits of the US during the war and after it gives a clearer viewpoint of the need for the Constitution.
