The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World's Most Powerful Money

In this ambitious and groundbreaking history of the dollar, financial journalist and economic scholar Brendan Greeley makes a new argument about the origins of our money-and the people and nations who have surrendered to it.

"Eye-opening, educational, exhaustively reported, and very fun to read."-Foreign Policy

America's money is global money-nearly every nation in the world writes international contracts in dollars, and in 2023, central banks around the world held nearly $6.7 trillion in dol...