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Volcker by William L. Silber6/4/2023 ![]() Silber manages to provide cogent explanations of how metal-based currency systems work, or don’t, as well as flesh out some fascinating yet lesser-known denizens of, in particular, the US Senate over the past century and a half. Silber tells the story of these outsized personalities and financial shenanigans with gusto and evident relish. The first is a detailed history of silver-in the United States.The second is a page-turner of a financial-political multi-generational thriller worthy of, say, John Grisham, filled with larger-than-life speculators, businessmen, manipulators, crooks and politicians-it not always being easy to tell them apart. The Story of Silver is two different books threaded together. ![]() If you thought a book entitled The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World and published by the venerable and academic Princeton University Press would be a dull, dense, heavily-footnoted tome, you’d be wrong. ![]()
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