Bray Hammond

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Bray Hammond (November 20, 1886 in Springfield, Missouri – July 20, 1968) was an American financial historian and assistant secretary to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1944–1950.[1] He won the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for History for Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (1957).[2] He was educated at Stanford University.

Books[]

  • Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War (Princeton University Press, 1957)
  • Sovereignty and an Empty Purse: Banks and Politics in the Civil War (Princeton, 1970)[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Hammond, Bray (1991). Banks and Politics in America from the Revolution to the Civil War. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-00553-2.
  2. ^ "The 1958 Pulitzer Prize Winner in History". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2019-10-08.
  3. ^ Hammond, Bray (2014). Sovereignty and an Empty Purse: Banks and Politics in the Civil War. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-1-4008-5535-3.

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