Prologue : Confidence and the currency
Bordering on alchemy
Cogniac street capitalism
The bank wars
The western bankers
Passing and detecting
Ghosts in the machine
Banking on the nation
Epilogue : Condfidence in the country.
A nation of counterfeiters : capitalists, con men, and the making of the United States by Stephen Mihm. ISBN 9780674026575. Published by Harvard University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.