The Power of Gold 2012

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A colorful history of humankind's obsession with gold revisits the ancient world, where gold was the absolute standard of wealth, and traces its rocky road to the present. By the author of Against the Odds. 100,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo. First serial, Worth.

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Books by Peter L. Bernstein:

• Against the Gods (1998)
• Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation (2006)
• Wedding of the Waters (2005)
• The Power of Gold (2012)