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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1802412, member: 57463&quot;][ATTACH=full]293071[/ATTACH] </p><p><i>Pictures of a Distant Country: Seeing America Through Private Money</i> by Richard Doty (Whitman, 2013, 296 pages, $24.95) is an oversized book (9 by 11 inches) replete with enlarged, full-color images of banknotes and other fiduciary paper from the nineteenth century. Dr. Richard Doty is the senior curator of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Numismatic Collection where he has had 27 years to study, organize, and display the tangible evidence of our nation’s financial history.</p><p><br /></p><p>Unlike the otherwise very nice efforts that organize paper money either by denominations and then by year of issue, or else by series of issue and then by denomination, this book honors the American people according to our occupations, families, classes and social statuses, as well as by our own views of whimsy, entertainment, accelerating technology, and national mythology.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]293072[/ATTACH] </p><p>(Reviewed for the MSNS <i>Mich-Matist</i>, Summer 2013).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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