Cover art for The Story of Silver
Published
Princeton University Press, January 2019
ISBN
9780691175386
Format
Hardcover, 328 pages
Dimensions
23.5cm × 15.5cm

The Story of Silver How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World by

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How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters today

This is the story of silver's transformation from soft money during the nineteenth century to hard asset today, and how manipulations of the white metal by American president Franklin D. Roosevelt during the 1930s and by the richest man in the world, Texas oil bar

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