King Dollar

“Economics may be the dismal science, but nobody told Paul Blustein. He has given us a lively and authoritative account of why the international dominance of the dollar could continue.”—James M. Boughton, author of Harry White and the American Creed: How a Federal Bureaucrat Created the Modern Global Economy (and Failed to Get the Credit)

“Few people write about international economic issues more clearly and entertainingly than Paul Blustein. In King Dollar he applies those skills to dismantling the ever-recurring arguments that the status of the dollar as the world’s preeminent currency is under threat.”—Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer-prize winning author of Lords of Finance

“A must read for anyone worried about the future of the dollar in a world split by geopolitical rivalries and rapid innovations in currencies and payments systems.”—Kristin Forbes, Professor at MIT-Sloan School of Management

“In this sizzling account of why the dollar has survived, Paul Blustein spins a tale that reaches from nineteenth-century bank porters to the volatile Obama-Trump-Biden years. Blustein is the unrivaled master of making banking and money compelling, clear, and lively.”—Roger Lowenstein, author of Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War