Other people's money : how banking worked in the early American Republic

Prologue: how the bank war worked: the political economy of money and banking -- How money worked: Revolutionary America -- How banks worked: the early Republic -- How panics worked: the era of the bank war -- Experiments in money and banking: Antebellum America -- How Civil War finance worked: the creation of the national banking system -- Conclusion: Andrew Jackson, other people's money, and the creation of the Federal Reserve -- Epilogue: why is Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill?