{"id":13601,"date":"2011-06-12T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-12T17:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test946983.live-website.com\/?p=13601"},"modified":"2019-12-03T22:48:59","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T22:48:59","slug":"book-review-moneymakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/?p=13601","title":{"rendered":"Book review: Moneymakers"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Moneymakers: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Notorious Counterfeiters<\/strong> by Ben Rarnoff (Order from Amazon.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

This 396-page hardcover was a bit of a disappointment for me, perhaps because I am very interested in the subject of counterfeiting from a technical perspective and this book focuses more on the forgers themselves and the economic state of America during the times in which three \u201cmost successful counterfeiters\u201d operated, starting in Colonial times, then the early 1800s, and finally during the Civil War. Also, I found the attempts to draw parallels to the recent Wall Street scandals a bit of stretch, as was the author\u2019s portrayal of these criminals as Robin Hood figures merely helping out the ordinary citizens by producing money the banks couldn\u2019t or wouldn\u2019t supply in sufficient quantities to meet popular demand.<\/p>\n

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Moneymakers: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Notorious Counterfeiters by Ben Rarnoff (Order from Amazon.com) This 396-page hardcover was a bit of a disappointment for me, perhaps because I am very interested in the subject of counterfeiting from a technical perspective and this book focuses more on theRead More\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[141],"class_list":["entry","author-owen-linzmayer","post-13601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-book","category-north-america","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13602,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13601\/revisions\/13602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banknotenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}