Sounds like an excellent book. I probably won’t get to it since I have several shelves of other assigned reading, but Andy Jackson’s threat to turn over all the Fed land to the States that were being created in the West was a powerful bargaining chip. Didn’t even come close to happening, but it should now.
I’m really weak on the Natl bank issues. The Fabric book was an eye opener. It’s amazing how the simple act of getting land surveyed was the foundation for so much subsequent actions. We take all of that for granted no. And of course wasn’t GW a surveyor.