Hildreth's important study of banking, published the same year as the financial disaster of 1837, a highly influential work that -helped to promote the growth of the free banking system in America-, scarce in original boards. Historian and journalist -Richard Hildreth is one of the more enigmatic figures in American intellectual history- . Following his studies at Harvard, Hildreth -was admitted to the bar in 1830, but he never practiced law. Instead, he turned to politics and journalism: first as a National Republican, then as a Whig- (ANB). A trip to the South prompted Hildreth to write his...
Hildreth's important study of banking, published the same year as the financial disaster of 1837, a highly influential work that -helped to promote th...
