Financing the Civil War at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83855595949
Tue, Apr 18
|Maggiano's Little Italy
Popular financial writer and author of "Ways and Means" tells how Lincoln and Chase funded the Civil War as the catalyst to centralize the government and accomplish the most far-reaching reform in the country’s history.
Time
Apr 18, 2023, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM EDT
Maggiano's Little Italy , 5333 Wisconsin Ave NW, Washington, DC 20015, USA
Guests
About the Event
The Lincoln Group of DC returns to Maggiano's for our April dinner meeting. The speaker is Roger Lowenstein, author of Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War. Lowenstein is a financial journalist who previously reported for The Wall Street Journal, Smart Money, the New York Times, Fortune, the Atlantic Monthly, and other venues. His newest book, Ways and Means, won the Harold Holzer Lincoln Forum book prize in 2022 and is a finalist for the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize to be awarded in April 2023.
Ways and Means digs into how the Civil War was funded. It is a remarkably accessible book on how Lincoln and Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase somehow, against all odds, kept the economy from collapsing while finding creative ways to pay for the massive costs of war. In fact, Lowenstein shows us how the northern economy not only…