Brands, Greenback Planet (2011)

H. W. Brands.
Greenback Planet: How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It.
Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2011.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Author Information:

• Henry W. Brands, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin.
• H. W. Brands, Wikipedia.
• h. w. brands, his website.

Video:

• H. W. Brands and David Graeber, Panel on American Debt, Texas Book Festival, Book TV, C-SPAN, 22 October 2011.

Book Reviews:

• James Grant, How the Dollar Rules by Fiat, The Wall Street Journal, 28 November 2011.

Brands, The Money Men (2006)

H. W. Brands.
The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War over the American Dollar.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2006.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Author Information:

• Henry W. Brands, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin.
• H. W. Brands, Wikipedia.
• h. w. brands, his website.

Video:

• H. W. Brands, Book Discussion on The Money Men, Texas Book Festival, Book TV, C-SPAN, 29 October 2006.

The "Money Men" discussed in the book are:

• Alexander Hamilton (1755 or 1757-1804).
• Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844).
• Jay Cooke (1821-1905).
• Jay Gould (1836-1892).
• J. P. Morgan (1837-1913).

See The Works of Alexander Hamilton, Volume 3 (1850) for Hamilton's reports on "Public Credit" (pages 1-46), on a "National Bank" (pages 106-146), "On The Establishment of a Mint" (pages 149-188), and on "Manufactures" (pages 192-284).

Beatty, Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900 (2007)

Jack Beatty.
Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf / Random House, Inc., 2007.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Author information:

• Jack Beatty, Wikipedia.
• Jack Beatty, The Atlantic.
• Beatty edited the related book: Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America, New York: Broadway Books / Crown, 2001. (Google Books; Amazon.com.)

Video:

• Jack Beatty - Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900, The Concord Bookshop, YouTube, 29 April 2007.
• Jack Beatty, Book Discussion on Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America, University of Massachusetts - Boston, Book TV, C-SPAN, 06 September 2001.
• Jack Beatty and others, The President and the Press, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities event at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, Book TV, C-SPAN, 20 November 2004.
• Jack Beatty, Growing Up In Boston In The 1950s, David Hoffman, YouTube.
• Jack Beatty and Lawrence R. Velvel, Books of Our Time, Massachusetts School of Law, Excerpt 1, Excerpt 2, day? month? 2007.

Other books on this period noted in this blog:

• Brands, American Colossus: The Triumph of Capitalism, 1865-1900 (2010).
  This post has many links for this period.
• White, Railroaded: The Transcontinentals and the Making of Modern America (2011).
  This post has many links specific to the railroads; given their central position during this period to the U.S. economy and economic development, one shouldn't think of railroads as a marginal issue.
• Wiebe, The Search for Order, 1877-1920 (1967).
• Stampp, The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (1967).
• Brands, The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (1995; 2002).
• Fusfeld, The Rise & Repression of Radical Labor in the United States 1877-1918 (1980; 1992).
• Diner, A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era (1998).
• Jacoby, The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought (2013).