Brendan Greeley
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And so to tell the story of the dollar, what I realized is you cannot tell the story of the country.
This is not the story of the Treasury Department or the Fed or of Alexander Hamilton or of America.
This is the story of the currency, which is only sometimes a part of America.
I hope so.
I actually did.
It's pretty cool that you're doing it.
Yeah.
So, you know, I got this offer to write the book about the dollar as a journalist.
I said yes.
And then I kind of got into trouble because I started doing archival work and I didn't really feel like I knew how to do archival work.
And I started reading a lot of secondary sources.
And then I began to have ideas.
That's a problem.
Because when you are a person alone in an office behind your garage with a dog for years and you start to have... What kind of dog?
Oh, he's... These are the important questions.
He's an awful dog.
We'll talk about it later.
He's famous on the Internet.
I had no idea.