Joseph Moore

And I just wanted to understand how other people had done or lived through what I had just lived through.

And then I started experimenting on it for fun, honestly.

I just thought this would be cool.

And I kept assuming I was going to find a book one day that would answer my question.

And I just thought, you know, look, there's a lot of books out there.

This isn't my primary field.

I will eventually find somebody wrote this book.

And I just kept not finding.

There were some really good books out there, but most of them focus on the Rockefellers or they focus on Wall Street.

Very few of them focus on what everyday people did with their money.

And then the dean of the Honors College knocked on my door and he said, hey, I like you, you're a young faculty.

I want you to teach an honors seminar.

I said, well, you know, I already teach kind of my specialties.

I don't know how.

He said, no, no, no.

You literally can't do your specialty.

You just have to teach something you think the students will find fascinating.

And I guess my whole life had been leading up to that moment because I just thought for a second.

I said, OK, financial advice in American history.

And he said, fine.