The story of silver how the white metal shaped America and the modern world
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 t...
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| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford (England)
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; From the Author; Main Characters; INTRODUCTION: Obsession; CHAPTER 1 Hamilton's Design; CHAPTER 2 Solving the Crime of 1873; CHAPTER 3 Free Silver; CHAPTER 4 Seeds of Roosevelt's Manipulation; CHAPTER 5 FDR Promotes Silver; CHAPTER 6 Silver Subsidy; CHAPTER 7 China and America Collide; CHAPTER 8 Bombshell in Shanghai; CHAPTER 9 Silver Lining; CHAPTER 10 Costly Victory; CHAPTER 11 JFK's Double Cross; CHAPTER 12 LBJ Nails the Coffin Shut; CHAPTER 13 Psychiatrist's Meltdown; CHAPTER 14 Battle Lines; CHAPTER 15 Nelson Bunker Hunt
- CHAPTER 16 Heavyweight FightCHAPTER 17 Saudi Connection; CHAPTER 18 Silver Soars; CHAPTER 19 Collapse; CHAPTER 20 The Trial; CHAPTER 21 Buffett's Manipulation?; CHAPTER 22 Message from Omaha; CHAPTER 23 The Past Informs the Future; Notes; Selected Bibliography; About the Author; Illustration Credits; Index