# Has anyone read "Money: A History" by Eagleton?

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**Created:** [January 15, 2011, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-read-money-a-history-by-eagleton/567765 "2011-01-15T23:45:13Z")\
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> **[Money: A History: Eagleton, Catherine, Williams, Jonathan: 9780714118147:...](https://www.amazon.com/Money-History-Catherine-Eagleton/dp/0714118141)**
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> Money: A History \[Eagleton, Catherine, Williams, Jonathan\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. Money: A History

I’m interested in picking it up if it’s well-written. The author’s credentials (historian at the British Museum) seem well-founded but I don’t want some ponderous treatise. Would anyone recommend a different book on money?

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I cannot comment on Eagleton’s book, but on a related subject you might like Peter L. Bernstein’s book “The Power of Gold”.

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**Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-read-money-a-history-by-eagleton/567765/3 "2011-01-20T22:42:14Z")

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In case anybody finds this later, I perused through the book and it wasn’t what I wanted. I looked like a history on the design of money with little or no mention of economic factors (e.g. it had no mention of hyperinflation.)