Big Money

In his new book The Almighty Dollar: 500 Years of the World’s Most Powerful Money, Brendan Greeley gives a different history of the dollar, one which is about the currency as it changed meanings and use across time. One of his main premises is that in America the dollar was an accident; something the United States, far from inventing, didn’t even choose as a currency, but rather stumbled into—and the Almighty Dollar has, in fact, a history far longer than the United States.