Greenback: The Almighty Dollar and the Invention of America
by Jason Goodwin
Greenback: The Almighty D...
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Read in December, 2007
This was a lot of fun; it's the history of paper money, wrapped up with the history of the dollar, the concept of money itself, the gold & silver standards, and incidentally the country as a whole. It's remarkable in a way since it takes what we understand as a rock-solid institution, the dollar, and turns it into the real chimera it actually is. I enjoyed the read a lot, it's good light history mixed in with just enough economics to make it real.
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Read in February, 2007
An entertaining and informative history of the American dollar and its influence on world currencies and markets. I never realized how important the idea of paper money backed by the integrity of a government is in the world economy.
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