A Counterfeiter's Paradise: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Early American Moneymakers Paperback - 2012
by Ben Tarnoff
"This tale of counterfeiting is a treat for everyone...a delightful history lesson...Admirable and altogether charming."
-The Washington Post
As Ben Tarnoff reminds us in this entertaining narrative history, get-rich-quick schemes are as old as America itself. Indeed, the speculative ethos that pervades Wall Street today, Tarnoff suggests, has its origins in the counterfeiters who first took advantage of America's turbulent economy. In A Counterfeiter's Paradise, Tarnoff chronicles the lives of three colorful counterfeiters who flourished in early America, from the colonial period to the Civil War. Driven by desire for fortune and fame, each counterfeiter cunningly manipulated the political and economic realities of his day. Through the tales of these three memorable hustlers, Tarnoff tells the larger tale of America's financial coming-of-age, from a patchwork of colonies to a powerful nation with a single currency.
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"This tale of counterfeiting is a treat for everyone...a delightful history lesson...Admirable and altogether charming."
-The Washington Post
As Ben Tarnoff reminds us in this entertaining narrative history, get-rich-quick schemes are as old as America itself. Indeed, the speculative ethos that pervades Wall Street today, Tarnoff suggests, has its origins in the counterfeiters who first took advantage of America's turbulent economy. In A Counterfeiter's Paradise, Tarnoff chronicles the lives of three colorful counterfeiters who flourished in early America, from the colonial period to the Civil War. Driven by desire for fortune and fame, each counterfeiter cunningly manipulated the political and economic realities of his day. Through the tales of these three memorable hustlers, Tarnoff tells the larger tale of America's financial coming-of-age, from a patchwork of colonies to a powerful nation with a single currency.
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- Title A Counterfeiter's Paradise: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Early American Moneymakers
- Author Ben Tarnoff
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York, New York
- Date 2012-03-06
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780143120773 / 0143120778
- Weight 0.72 lbs (0.33 kg)
- Dimensions 8.42 x 5.5 x 0.83 in (21.39 x 13.97 x 2.11 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Counterfeits and counterfeiting - United, Counterfeits and counterfeiting - United
- Dewey Decimal Code 364.133
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