Greenback: The Almighty Dollar and the Invention of America - Hardcover

Goodwin, Jason

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805064079 ISBN 13: 9780805064070

Verlag: Henry Holt & Co, 2003

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A history of the American dollar notes its representation as an expression of art, advertising, cultural attitudes, and affluence, identifying its role in the development of the nation while describing the people and events that contributed to its story. 50,000 first printing.

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Jason Goodwin's previous titles include Lords of the Horizons, On Foot to the Golden Horn, and A Time for Tea. He lives in England.

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Most people find that what they really like about money is more of it, but only Americans started with a clean slate and a belief that if only they could hit on the right formula their dreams would come true. They experimented with money as no other nation ever had the chance to: wampum, paper currency, private bank notes, gold and
silver, government money, bank money. On the way, the people learned to strike a deal, fix a price, watch their interests. They learned how to conjure money not out of the thin air exactly, but out of the natural riches of the land and the
ingenuity of their own minds, and fell to arguing how much, relatively speaking, it was worth.
Settling that dispute, over the years, defined them as a nation.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Henry Holt & Co
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0805064079
• ISBN 13: 9780805064070
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
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