The Story of Silver How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World |
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| Author:
| Silber, William L. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-17538-6 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 2019 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $54.99 |
Book Description:
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How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis 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
How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis 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