Illegal Tender: Counterfeiting and the Secret Service in Nineteenth-Century America - Hardcover

JOHNSON DAVID R

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1560983590 ISBN 13: 9781560983590

Publisher: Smithsonian, 2000

Synopsis

Provides an account of the United States Secret Service's fight against counterfeiting activities during the Civil War period

About this title

About the Author:

David R. Johnson is a professor of history in the Division of Behavioral and Cultural Sciences at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

From Booklist:

Johnson's history of counterfeiting in the U.S. is closely tied in with the evolution of the secret service. He establishes how the service developed as a federal regulatory agency to control the creation and flow of illegal tender. The account is a mix of anecdotes about the characters who plied this interesting, illegal trade and a look at how efforts to control this criminal underworld supported the growing power of the federal government. To be indexed. Denise Perry Donavin

About this edition

• Publisher: Smithsonian
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1560983590
• ISBN 13: 9781560983590
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 222