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pPrologue: Confidence and the Currency/pp1. Bordering on Alchemybr /br /2. Cogniac Street Capitalismbr /br /3. The Bank Warsbr /br /4. The Western Bankersbr /br /5. Passing and Detectingbr /br /6. Ghosts in the Machinebr /br /7. Banking on the Nation/ppEpilogue: Confidence in the Countrybr /br //ppAbbreviationsbr /br /Notesbr /br /A Note on Sourcesbr /br /Acknowledgmentsbr /br /Index/ppa href=http://www.hup.harvard.edu/audio/MIHNAT.mp3 target=newListen to a short interview with Stephen Mihm/abr/Host: Chris Gondek Producer: a href=http://www.heronandcrane.comHeron & Crane/a/ppFew of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our purses, pockets, and wallets. Yet confidence in the money supply is a recent phenomenon: prior to the Civil War, the United States did not have a single, national currency. Instead, countless banks issued paper money in a bewildering variety of denominations and designs--more than ten thousand different kinds by 1860. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation./ppTheir success, Stephen Mihm reveals, is more than an entertaining tale of criminal enterprise: it is the story of the rise of a country defined by a freewheeling brand of capitalism over which the federal government exercised little control. It was an era when responsibility for the country's currency remained in the hands of capitalists for whom making money was as much a literal as a figurative undertaking./ppMihm's witty tale brims with colorful characters: shady bankers, corrupt cops, charismatic criminals, and brilliant engravers. Based on prodigious research, it ranges far and wide, from New York City's criminal underworld to the gold fields 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 syste@'³33333ÿ¾Û€

pPrologue: Confidence and the Currency/pp1. Bordering on Alchemybr /br /2. Cogniac Street Capitalismbr /br /3. The Bank Warsbr /br /4. The Western Bankersbr /br /5. Passing and Detectingbr /br /6. Ghosts in the Machinebr /br /7. Banking on the Nation/ppEpilogue: Confidence in the Countrybr /br //ppAbbreviationsbr /br /Notesbr /br /A Note on Sourcesbr /br /Acknowledgmentsbr /br /Index/ppa href=http://www.hup.harvard.edu/audio/MIHNAT.mp3 target=newListen to a short interview with Stephen Mihm/abr/Host: Chris Gondek Producer: a href=http://www.heronandcrane.comHeron & Crane/a/ppFew of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our purses, pockets, and wallets. Yet confidence in the money supply is a recent phenomenon: prior to the Civil War, the United States did not have a single, national currency. Instead, countless banks issued paper money in a bewildering variety of denominations and designs--more than ten thousand different kinds by 1860. Counterfeiters flourished amid this anarchy, putting vast quantities of bogus bills into circulation./ppTheir success, Stephen Mihm reveals, is more than an entertaining tale of criminal enterprise: it is the story of the rise of a country defined by a freewheeling brand of capitalism over which the federal government exercised little control. It was an era when responsibility for the country's currency remained in the hands of capitalists for whom making money was as much a literal as a figurative undertaking./ppMihm's witty tale brims with colorful characters: shady bankers, corrupt cops, charismatic criminals, and brilliant engravers. Based on prodigious research, it ranges far and wide, from New York City's criminal underworld to the gold fields 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 syste@$¸Që…¸ÿ¾Û€

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