A Nation of Counterfeiters

A Nation of Counterfeiters Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States

"Based on prodigious research, the book ranges far and wide, from New York City's criminal underworld to the goldfields of California and the battlefields of the Civil War. We learn how the federal government issued greenbacks for the first time and began dismantling the older monetary system and the counterfeit economy it sustained."--BOOK JACKET.
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