{"product_id":"9781587294259","title":"Currency of the Heart: A Year of Investing, Death, Work, and Coins","description":"In 1998, Don Nichols returned regularly to Iowa from his life and job in Washington, D.C., to be with his dying father and to oversee his parents’ investments. A veteran investor and investment author, Nichols found that managing the portfolio entrusted to him brought a larger understanding of mortality, family, love, work, and the choices he had made as “an agri-kid who took the road out of town and kept going.” In this insightful and money-wise book that grew out of that experience, he merges the emotions of a dutiful son with the actions of a knowledgeable investor.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Nichols uses money in myriad forms—a grandfather‘s silver dollar, stocks and bonds, salaries, pallets of coins at the U.S. Mint, on-the-job dealings with coin collectors—as touchstones for reflections on relationships, motives, and a career \"like one of those moving walkways in airports.\" His father's health is measured, tested, and evaluated in part by the health of his finances; at the same time, the turmoil and mystery surrounding both money and relationships are reflected in this memorable story. Wry, unsentimental, and financially savvy, \u003ci\u003eCurrency of the Heart\u003c\/i\u003e is about rediscovering family, managing a portfolio, honoring promises, grieving, and healing; it is about a father and a son who once “fought like medieval villagers in a Thirty Years‘ War” and the deepening bond between a middle-age son and his aging mother. It is a multilayered story for everyone who will manage, financially and emotionally, a parent's death.","brand":"University of Iowa Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137876639984,"sku":"9781587294259","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781587294259_p0.jpg?v=1763801629","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781587294259","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}