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One Nation Under Gold: How One Precious Metal Has Dominated the American Imagination for Four Centuries by James Ledbetter

3.0

A history of America's love affair with gold, from the earliest conquistador attempts to find fabled cities of the yellow metal, to the latest rambling demands of certain eccentric figures to re-tie the nation to a deflationary gold standard, and all the twists and turns in between.