ASIN: B00HNSHQYA
Publisher: Argonaut Books
Pages: 336
The fascinating story of a new kind of money for a new world.Money has always been at the heart of the American experience. Paper money, invented in Boston in 1698, was a classic of American ingenuity - and American disregard for authority and tradition. With the wry and admiring eye of a modern Tocqueville, Jason Goodwin's biography of the dollar gives us the story of its astonishing career through the wilds of American history. Looking at the dollar as a form of art, a kind of advertising, a reflection of American attitudes, and a builder of empires, Goodwin shows us how the dollar rolled out the frontier and peopled the Plains; how it erected the great cities; how it expressed the urges of democracy and opportunity. And, above all, Goodwin introduces us to the people who championed - or ambushed - the dollar over the years: presidents, artists, pioneers, and frontiersmen; bankers ...
