contents

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Joseph T. Salerno
PART 1
The History of Money and Banking
Before the Twentieth Century . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
PART 2
The Origins of the Federal Reserve . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
PART 3
From Hoover to Roosevelt:
The Federal Reserve and the Financial Elites . . . . . . . . . . 259
PART 4
The Gold-Exchange Standard
in the Interwar Years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
PART 5
The New Deal and the
International Money System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 491