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...