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Greenback by Jason Goodwin
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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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July 9, 2007 – Shelved
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December 1, 2007 – Finished Reading
December 27, 2007 – Shelved as: othernonfiction

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