Kate Sherrod’s Reviews > A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America's Financial Disasters > Status Update

"Though William Crawford was from Georgia, he was weak on the issue of Indian killing. As secretary of war, he had famously suggested that the best way of dealing with the Indians was to intermarry with them."

I have another favorite "what if we followed his advice" guy to go with John Wesley Powell.

2017, not 2016. Gah.

"resident James Monroe, responding to the American mania for cheap British monkey jackets, dressed for his 1817 inauguration in a woolen coat, waistcoat, and breeches, all shorn from American sheep, manufactured entirely in America. The tradition of wearing only American-made clothing at the inauguration was one that every president followed thereafter."

Even in 2016, I can't help but wonder?

I already love this book. But I have a well known and possibly weird fixation on financial crisis literature.