agreeing to locate the new national capital far from the perfidious money men of New York City, on the banks of the "Potoumac." And there in the national capital, two centuries later, the thread might end in today's recrimina- tions over the treatment of the "moneyed inter- ests" in the savings-and-loan crisis and other af- fairs. Between these two points the narrative would wind through the battles over the first and second national banks, the memorable as- sault on the "cross...