Author: MCCALEB, WALTER F.
Title: How Much Is a $ (Dollar) - the Story of Money and Banks
Description: USA: The Naylor Company, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. "Takes a critical look at many practices in handling of finances which affect you directly. [The author] frankly describes as 'fraud' the government's practice of letting people think their bank deposits have federal protection. Dr. McCaleb is well qualified to write about money and banks. Among other outstanding activities, he has been a lecturer on money and banking at Columbia University, the organizer and vice president of the Federation Bank of New York, the director and vice chairman, active, of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and a special advisor to Harold Ickes." - dust jacket (not included with this copy. "[Your book] certainly furnishes much food for thought to all in whose hands it comes." - The Honorable Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House of Representatives. 128 pages. Will be of great appeal to those who have read "The Creature From Jekyll Island", and similar works. Chapters include: Money - its origins; Banks - the beginnings; The new world; The First Bank of the United States; "Wild-Cat" Banking; The Second Bank of the United States; A Period of Confusion; The National Bank Act; The Federal Reserve Act; Experience Under the Reserve Act; Labor Banking; The Bank Act of 1933; Credit Unions; Savings and Loan Associations; The Gold Standard. Moderate wear to navy blue boards. Contents very clean, bright and unmarked, the exceptions being 3 tiny faint markings in text which appear to be inkstamps of the initials "D.W." ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall; McCaleb, Walter F. How Much is a $ - The Story of Money and Banks 128 pages. Will be of great appeal to those who have read "The Creature From Jekyll Island", and similar works. Chapters include: Money - its origins; Banks - the beginnings; The new wor. Very Good with no dust jacket .

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