tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post4749383032051830344..comments2023-08-27T10:10:30.032+02:00Comments on Laws of Silence: Washington: First in War, Peace -- and AccountingDauradehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-74049761344774170392009-10-30T10:54:21.477+01:002009-10-30T10:54:21.477+01:00Yeah, it also fits nicely into those posts about W...Yeah, it also fits nicely into those posts about Washington the Mason and Surveyor---the land grab, etc. Notice he had to borrow money to get to his 1st inauguration but had an empire at the time of his death.<br /><br />Being President was very, uh, enriching.<br /><br />But yeah, forensic accounting is an idea whose time has come. History gets a little more concrete than the poetic Dauradehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06296473494856239751noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7414775977222684812.post-88121544218874504332009-10-30T07:00:50.619+01:002009-10-30T07:00:50.619+01:00Thanks for posting this, Daurade.
The thrust of ...Thanks for posting this, Daurade. <br /><br />The thrust of the article you referenced was the idea that finacial records are a largely ignored historical source. <br /><br />I did a bit of digging into Pynchon's sources for "Mason & Dixon" and found some points where he must have been looking at some financial records. It was tough (too tough for me) to track back to the actualThe Gidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04222098025692029885noreply@blogger.com