{"product_id":"9781101574836","title":"A Counterfeiter's Paradise: The Wicked Lives and Surprising Adventures of Three Early American Moneymakers","description":"\"This tale of counterfeiting is a treat for everyone...a delightful  history lesson...Admirable and altogether charming.\" \u003cbr\u003e-\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Ben Tarnoff reminds us in this entertaining narrative history,  get-rich-quick schemes are as old as America itself. Indeed, the  speculative ethos that pervades Wall Street today, Tarnoff suggests,  has its origins in the counterfeiters who first took advantage of  America's turbulent economy. In \u003ci\u003eA Counterfeiter's Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e,  Tarnoff chronicles the lives of three colorful counterfeiters who  flourished in early America, from the colonial period to the Civil War.  Driven by desire for fortune and fame, each counterfeiter cunningly  manipulated the political and economic realities of his day. Through  the tales of these three memorable hustlers, Tarnoff tells the larger  tale of America's financial coming-of-age, from a patchwork of colonies  to a powerful nation with a single currency.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072755712240,"sku":"9781101574836","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101574836_p0.jpg?v=1763688480","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101574836","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}