Books with author Robert BRIGHT

Like its current citizens, the United States was born in debt-a debt so deep that it threatened to destroy the young nation. Thomas Jefferson considered the national debt a monstrous fraud on posterity, while Alexander Hamilton believed debt would help America prosper. Both, as it turns out, were right. One Nation Under Debt explores the untold history of America's first national debt, which arose from the immense sums needed to conduct the American Revolution. Noted economic historian Robert Wright, Ph.D. tells in riveting narrative how a subjugated but enlightened people cast off a great tyrant-“but their liberty, won with promises as well as with the blood of patriots, came at a high price.” He brings to life the key events that shaped the U.S. financial system and explains how the actions of our forefathers laid the groundwork for the debt we still carry today. As an economically tenuous nation by Revolution's end, America's people struggled to get on their feet. Wright outlines how the formation of a new government originally reduced the nation's debt-but, as debt was critical to this government's survival, it resurfaced, to be beaten back once more. Wright then reveals how political leaders began accumulating massive new debts to ensure their popularity, setting the financial stage for decades to come. Wright traces critical evolutionary developments-from Alexander Hamilton's creation of the nation's first modern capital market, to the use of national bonds to further financial goals, to the drafting of state constitutions that created non-predatory governments. He shows how, by the end of Andrew Jackson's administration, America's financial system was contributing to national growth while at the same time new national and state debts were amassing, sealing the fate for future generations.

Georgie is the gentle little ghost who lives in the Whittaker house. Every night he creaks the stairs and squeaks the parlor door to remind Mr. and Mrs. Whittaker that its time to go to bed and to sleep. But Georgie never scared anybody; he was much too shy for that. But when robbers come to steal all the lovely antiques in the house, its up to Georgie to frighten them away.

A friendly little ghost named Georgie must look for a new place to live when the gentleman of the house decides to nail down the stair Georgie creaks each night and oil the hinges on the door he squeeks each night. Can ghosts file for unemployment? This endearing story celebrates our interdependence -- it's only when Georgie makes his ghost sounds that Mr. and Mrs. Whittaker know it's bedtime, Miss Oliver the owl knows it's time to wake and Herman the cat knows it's time to prowl. The action moves along at a lively pace and the charming black and white drawings are full of amusing details. Children will be reassured by the fact that even those things rumored to be very scary can turn out to be as friendly as this little ghost. ( Amazon customer0

Cassie lived on the cloudy, rainy planet of Ecstasy where nothing exciting happened. Then her parents turn up dead, an abusive uncle and her loving cousin come to live with her. That’s when all the strange things start happening in Cassie’s life. So Cassie and her cousin run to the one place that will afford her an escape away from those that hunt her, and that is when her life really gets wild. Of course, it’s not anything a girl that can talk to ghosts and manifest fears out of people’s minds can’t handle.