Weapon of Choice: Fake News, Fake Money, and the Invention of America

ISBN-10: 0983644675
ISBN-13: 9780983644675
Series: Weapon of Choice
Pages: 326
Language: English
Published: 2019-08-19
Author: Nathan Allen

Description

Books have been written about money, and books have been written about the press. But no book has been on written on both and how they converged to create a nation. Weapon of Choice chronicles the history of the press through pirates, pornographers, counterfeiters and dissenters as they find themselves hunted, imprisoned, deported, and branded. The history of the press is an evolution of imagining money, free speech, and individual identities - all values created from nothing. The story is framed by and culminates in a young criminal living in a small village on the edge of civilization who is charged with recreating Gutenberg's alchemy from three centuries earlier. The people who were counting on him had hopes of creating a new nation - and a new concept of individual identity - by deploying their weapon of choice.