<p><span class="deck">Skillful money-juggling by America’s first financier aided the new nation but led Morris himself to utter ruin</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> In Pierre Landais the Continental Navy had its own real-life Commander Queeg. His tour as master of the <span class="typestyle"> Alliance</span> was a nightmare wilder than any a novelist could invent </span></p>
