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Who Bankrolled the American Revolution?

By Adam Gopnik · The New Yorker · March 2026

Who Bankrolled the American Revolution?

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"Adam Gopnik reviews “The Banker Who Made America: Thomas Willing and the Rise of the American Financial Aristocracy, 1731-1821,” by Richard Vague."

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