The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World

by William Silber and William L. Silber

Book Overview

How silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters today

This 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 baron Nelson Bunker Hunt, during the 1970s altered the course of American and world history...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691175381
• ISBN13: 9780691175386
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.2"