Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It

From the New York Times–bestselling historian and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, "[a] compact summation of our nation's monetary history" (Shepherd Express).

The world runs on the US dollar. From Washington to Beijing, governments, businesses, and individuals rely on the dollar to conduct commerce and invest profitably and safely. But how did the greenback achieve this planetary dominance a mere century and a half after President Lincoln issued the first currency backed only by the cre...