ASIN: B007JR03EU
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 166
Thomas Edison’s inventions electrified cities, streamlined factories, and provided the hardware and software needed to launch a vast new entertainment industry. A true American visionary, people clamored to hear the genius whenever he spoke. But a key part of his legacy has been missing from history books—until now. In 1921, Edison proposed a radical overhaul the U.S. monetary system. In fact, he proposed coming up with a new kind of money. Like today, this was an era wracked by high unemployment, a fluctuating dollar, political unrest, and social turmoil. Edison's goals were bold: to assure the dollar would become reliable enough to support full employment, to relieve the huge debt burden crushing farmers, to prevent Wall Street from gouging Main Street, and to bring prosperity to the entire nation.Harvesting Gold tells the remarkable story of Edison’s forgotten ...
