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Prologue: Confidence and the Currency 1
1 Bordering on Alchemy 20
2 Cogniac Street Capitalism 63
3 The Bank Wars 103
4 The Western Bankers 157
5 Passing and Detecting 209
6 Ghosts in the Machine 260
7 Banking on the Nation 305
Epilogue: Confidence in the Country 360
Abbreviations 377
Notes 379
A Note on Sources 428
Acknowledgments 436
Index 443
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William Mcgowan
reviewed A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States on May 23, 2012 A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States
An Historian who can Tell a Story!!!
Stephen Mihm is a breath of fresh air.
A Nation of Counterfeiters is both well documented and well written narrative history that draws the reader along to new understanding and perspective on the nation's economy and banking system in the early history of the United States. Rather than the normal economy, however, Mihm tackles the underground economy and in the process allows the reader to better understand both.
Mihm weaves a tapestry of sources to draw clearly an element of society that took great pains to go unnoticed. Using archives, newspapers, family histories, and genealogies, he paints the picture and at the same time illustrates the national situation that not only tempted but almost by default drew an element of shadow capitalists to serve not only their own needs but the needs of a cash starved society stuggling for confidence and sufficient quantity in the money supply.
Nearly every paragraph in this work has at least one source so the scholar will be able to utilize this for academic needs. Better than most books of this genre though the story reads clearly and is tightly written and flows.
I look forward to future works by Mr. Mihm. This was a pleasure to read.
5 unqualified stars!
Bart Breen
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