Gold

  • Gold: The California Story
    By Mary Hill

    "This is a very readable account of gold mining in California from the earliest days to the present and of its economic, social, cultural, and literary consequences.

  • Gold: The Once and Future Money
    By Nathan Lewis

    Lewis’s ultimate conclusion is simple but powerful: gold has been adopted as money because it works. The gold standard produced decades and even centuries of stable money and economic abundance.