Ways and Means by Roger Lowenstein5/28/2023 And he isn’t averse to sprinkling his prose with some appropriately employed pithy phrases that can bring a smile to the face of even the most reluctant reader. His narrative flows with a confident grace, guding readers through myriad financial schemes, government policies, and political intrigue with a minimum of technocratic jargon or cliché-ridden truisms. Another trope is that writing about economics is almost as dismal as the science. The author of critically acclaimed books on Wall Street and modern financial arrangements, Lowenstein has turned his considerable talents to a heretofore underappreciated aspect of the Civil War: namely, how the government of Abraham Lincoln, totally unprepared for a conflict of such magnitude, managed to raise unprecedented amounts of money to pay for it-and, in the process, initiated a revolution in government that laid the groundwork for the nation’s modern economic state. Some have characterized economics as the dismal science. Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War by Roger Lowenstein.
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