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If you read Madison’s correspondence during this same time, you get the strong impression that the problem went much deeper than any shuffling of account books could ever satisfy.

It’ll be like Amelie, but if instead of freeing garden gnomes from people’s yards, we liberated them from pesky taxes, and if instead of gnomes, those were the account books of private equity firms!

But BTS’s impact is not limited to its management company’s account books.

She regularly went door to door with an account book and a tin box, inviting them to entrust her with their nickels, dimes and quarters.

There's also an account book belonging to Revere's descendants and a sign painted black bearing the name of Revere's son, Joseph W. Revere.