Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1750. National Gallery, London.

Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, by Thomas Gainsborough, c. 1750. National Gallery, London.

About Money

Volume 1, Number 2 | spring 2008

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Our Robber Barons, by Bernhard Gillam, 1882.

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Holy Dread

By Lewis H. Lapham

The history of the United States is synonymous with the dream of riches, but the question as to whether money is mortal or immortal has never been resolved.

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Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York. 

- Ambrose Bierce, 1911

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Lewis Lapham talks to Michael Kazin, author of War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918. More