I just finished a very frightening book. Not the Stephan King, chills up your spine kind of frightening. The kind of frightening that you are walking across a railroad trestle to the far side of a river and you feel the telltale vibration of a train on the tracks. You start to run to the nearest side, but see the train and realize you will be run over or you will have to jump into the rocky riverbed below.
The title is The Day the Dollar Dies by Willard Cantelon. The book was published in 1973, but could read like headline news today. I’m not calling Cantelon a prophet, but an extremely astute historian, economist, and theologian. For all of us whose only study of economics was the required high school course, the title sounds boring. For those who have a more advanced study, it is probably fascinating. The latter is more accurate. I highly recommend this book, if you can find it. It is very well written, and a compelling read. It has been said that truth is stranger than fiction, what you will read in this book will (with supportive historic documentation) cause any Hollywood espionage thriller to be put to shame. It is on a scale of National Treasure in historic research and suspense. If it were presented as a work of fiction, it would have been a best seller. I can’t emphasize the importance of this book enough.
Find it, buy it, read it.
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