Art of Money The History and Design of Paper Currency from Around the World

"Like postage stamps, money is often handled but rarely looked at. David Standish, a Chicago journalist, stylishly (and not too expensively) fills the lacuna. Along with a 'short history of money' and a longer, well-illustrated survey of American money from colonial times to the present, Standish offers penetrating takes on such unexpected subjects as the depiction of 'tough guys' on the world's bills--an Inca warrior on Ecuador's 1,000-sucre note 'looks like Charles Bronson of the Amazon.'Standish, David is the author of 'Art of Money The History and Design of Paper Currency from Around the World' with ISBN 9780811828055 and ISBN 0811828050.