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Washington Was Broke? Why Founding Fathers Were Strapped for Cash

Washington needed a job. Historian Willard Sterne Randall on the forefathers’ financial struggles.

Willard Sterne Randall
Willard Sterne Randall
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Willard Sterne Randall

Willard Sterne Randall

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