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Nancy Bradeen Spannaus

Nancy Bradeen Spannaus

Nancy Bradeen Spannaus is a retired journalist and editor who has been studying American history, with an emphasis on its economic development in general, and Alexander Hamilton in particular. She maintains the blog, www.americansystemnow.com, and is co-author of Political Economy of the American Revolution (1977) and author of Hamilton Versus Wall Street: The Core Principles of the American System of Economics (2019). She and her husband live in Northern Virginia.

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Critical Thinking, Economics, Postwar Politics (>1783) August 16, 2022 August 15, 2022

Alexander Hamilton was Right: True Liberty Demands Economic Independence

One of the most insightful monologues in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton musical comes from King George, who raps to the following effect: Well, now that…

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Politics, Politics During the War (1775-1783) August 29, 2019 August 28, 2019

The Fight Behind the Declaration of Independence

Put yourself, in your mind’s eye, back in June 1776, specifically, the period between June 7 and July 1. It is precisely at that…

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