Casebound, library edition (Smythe sewn), xxiii (348 pages total), 109 full-color images on 48 pages, 6 pages of b/w images, 1,200-entry index, glossary, 4 graphs, 2 tables, and 16 appendices.  Physical size: 8-1/2 by 11-1/2 inches.  Single copy delivery weight 5 pounds.  ISBN 0-9663570-0-0.  LCCN 98-91362.  Published December 1998.  Copyright © 1998 by Principia Publishing, Inc.  All rights reserved.

OVERVIEW:

1.  We believe Money is the world's first legal exposure to large color photographs of US paper currency (gold certificates, silver certificates, etc.) going back to Colonial issues, including the first paper currency issued in the New World, the 1690 Massachusetts Bay Colony Note.  The photographs are compelling, partly because of the bill's rarity and partly because of their intricate and beautiful engraving.  Images were supplied by the Smithsonian Institution, the New York Federal Reserve Bank, the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, Bowers & Merena Galleries, Inc., R.M. Smythe & Company, Inc., and by private collectors.

2.  The first third of the book provides etymologies and other historical facts about the most important monetary terms: money, currency, dollar, pay, note, bill, tender, usury, and inflation.  Here you may be amazed to learn the sometimes-profound legal significance of even common words such as "a" and "as."

3.  The second third of the book discusses inflation in detail, as a crime, a form of criminal fraud; how petty criminals (via counterfeiting) and the world's "elite" perpetrate this fraud; and the several mechanisms through which the world's most powerful crime syndicate uses this fraud to help it pull off history's largest crime.  A chapter on fraud exposes how innocent persons are often victimized simply by their failure to understand the concepts behind everyday monetary terms.

4.  The last third of the book is appendices.  They include photocopies of the Act of April 2, 1792 (the United States' first Mint act); the first two pages of the article on money from Encyclopedia Britannica (1992, 1911, and 1768 eds.); and the four pages of the definition of money from the Oxford English Dictionary (1997 printing).  One appendix lists dictionary definitions chronologically, from 1828 to 1997, to show how imprecision and error crept into everyday usage as well as into the law.  That appendix also includes dozens of definitions of monetary terms from Black's Law Dictionary (1891, 1951, and 1992 eds.), Bouvier's Law Dictionary (1870 ed.), West Publishing Company's Words and Phrases (1907 and 1957 eds.), and Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828 ed.).

5.  Money is about bankers, politicians, and theft by fraud.  It blows the whistle on how the world's most powerful crime syndicate is pulling off history's largest crime: colossal international financial fraud, crimes against humanity, and treason.

6.  Money ends by summarizing how this criminal syndicate operates, how it can be put out of business, and how the world will benefit when that happy day arrives.

7.  We recommend Money to business executives, professionals, academics, and college students.  However, Money has also served as a home-school text as well as an excellent reference work for homes, businesses, schools, and public libraries.  Money may also make an outstanding gift to adults at Christmas, on birthdays, at graduations, and as an elegant promotional item for many businesses.  In the latter case, it may be a superior gift to prospective or long-standing clients or customers, or benefactors.

DETAILS:

1.  In Money, most of the color photos of US paper currency show the face of the bills 1.52 times actual size.  The text on these enlargements is easy to read – the contractual obligation of each bill becomes easy to see and understand.  Captions explain words and phrases many readers today might not readily understand.

2.  Money stresses the importance of always using the most formal, technically-correct monetary terms, and to avoid using colloquial (imprecise) versions of those terms.  To make sure the reader fully understands the formal, technically precise meaning of a word, great attention is given to etymologies, examples of correct and incorrect usage, and to how imprecise but colloquial uses came to be widely misunderstood, even to the point of being incorporated into the law and judicial holdings.

3.  While lawyers and other professionals may benefit immediately by reading Money, we believe lay readers may also benefit quickly.  A solid understanding of monetary terms, and the concepts behind those terms, can help most readers quickly spot fraud, or simple error, in legal documents, statutes, and political speeches.  Voters may benefit by being able to quickly tell how confused a public figure may be about financial matters.  Everyone should benefit by having a fresher, more accurate, and clearer view of what's ahead for their investments, and what portfolio changes might be most beneficial for them in the months and years ahead.

4.  A proper understanding of money and monetary terms should give every reader a healthy, positive, and exciting view of the future, not just for himself but also for his or her family.  That's because Money not only describes an immense, gruesome crime, it also offers a workable solution to this problem – and, thereby, a solution to many of the rest of society's major problems.

5.  The face of most bills is shown 1.52 times actual size; the back of most bills is shown 0.72 times actual size.  Also shown are full-size photos of every denomination of modern and Colonial coin.  Photos include a genuine $3 bill, a $3,000 bill, a Cherokee nation $1 bill, a Republic of Texas $50 bill, Abraham Lincoln's fractional currency, all the US gold coin and silver coin denominations, and other interesting images.  Coin images include a $50 gold coin, 50-cent and 25-cent gold coins, $2.50 and $4 gold coins, a half-cent coin, a silver nickel, and a steel cent.

6.  Our letter of permission from the United States Secret Service – to reproduce "obligations of the United States" in color – is shown in an appendix.

MISCELLANEOUS:

1.  "Ye shall have honest weights and measures," Money's subtitle, is a paraphrase of an Old Testament passage (Deuteronomy 25:15).  We chose that passage for Money's subtitle because it reminds us that criminals used dishonest weights and dishonest measures, monetary and otherwise, 2,700 years ago.  This historical fact may help today's readers understand that we should not be surprised to learn that today's criminals use dishonest weights and dishonest measures against us.  Today's shocking "dishonest weights and dishonest measures" – fractional-reserve banking, unbacked paper currency, and government deficits – are clearly explained in simple, conversational terms.

2.  Money does not indict all bankers or all politicians but it does level serious charges against a small group the book refers to as "Insiders," meaning extremely wealthy persons who benefit by war and the threat of war, and who have allegedly provided significant financial and other aid to many of the past century's most heinous dictators.  If war (or the threat of war) makes markets move most rapidly, and it does, and if the Insiders are so powerful they can manipulate dictators so as to control the outbreak of war, then they may also manipulate political campaigns, parties, and office-holders.  Money discusses this manipulation and the crimes that make it possible – and the punishments for those crimes, as may be provided by US law.

3.  Money's Preface discusses "Verbicide" and explains how politicians, courts, and criminals often manipulate or kill the meaning of words by deliberately and maliciously misusing them.  Specific instances of judicial misuse are included in the Preface and elsewhere in the book.

4.  Multiple-copy discounts are available.  We recommend that proactive senior managers consider making gifts of Money to selected employees, and to senior managers of their firm's largest clients and customers, to executives at prospective new client firms, and to senior officers and managers of their main suppliers.

5.  Celebrity copies are autographed copies we gift wrap and ship – with a tasteful, custom greeting card bearing the giver's name and address – to celebrities, close friends (or would-be close friends!), or prospective customers.  Some celebrities to whom our customers have had us send Celebrity copies are US President and Mrs. George W. Bush, US Supreme Court Justice and Mrs. Clarence Thomas, US Congressman Ron Paul, Notre Dame Law School Professor Charles Rice, George Mason University Economics Professor Walter Williams, actor Tom Hanks, actor Tom Selleck, actor Mel Gibson, Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, presidential candidate Pat Robertson, Reverend Jerry Falwall, Reverend D. James Kennedy, TV personality John Stossel, and talk-show hosts Mr. & Mrs. Rush Limbaugh, Mr. & Mrs. Michael Savage, and Mr. Michael Medved.  [An underscore signifies our customer received a Thank You note from this celebrity.]

Prospective Celebrity-copy customers should understand that Hollywood and media personalities today rarely send Thank You messages or even acknowledge receiving gifts sent to them by the public.

AUTHOR:

James E. Ewart, while in the United States Air Force and stationed in Germany, just happened to be on leave in Berlin on Sunday, August 13, 1961, the day the Communists suddenly slammed the border shut and began building The Wall.  His surprise encounter with the Red Army that day, in the Soviet sector of Berlin, inspired him to learn all he could about how the world works and affects ordinary people.  He relates his bizarre experience in Money, beginning with Chapter One: Berlin.

Jim Ewart is Editor-In-Chief of Zenger News Service.  He is multi-lingual and can read 2,000 words a minute, and is a pilot, computer programmer, and electronics expert.  He ran a bookstore for five years and has read thousands of non-fiction books.

Here you will learn what he learned – about bankers, politicians, and theft by fraud.

Jim lives in Seattle.

OVERVIEW FROM THE DUST JACKET:

You might consider this a mystery or crime book:  It's about money – mostly your money – and about bankers, politicians, and theft by fraud.  But because the perpetrators want to keep you in the dark, a clear explanation of their scheme has been hard to find.

Now, however, Money shows you in considerable, amusing detail how the game is played.  Here you'll learn how these people get your money by manipulating voters and the law.

Did you know that "fractional reserve" banking is today's financial hocus-pocus?  It is.  Banking and political Insiders use it to cause inflation and thereby finesse trillions of dollars out of the pockets, purses, and bank accounts of everyone else.

Did you know there is no gold or silver backing US paper currency today?  There isn't.  Unbacked paper currency, today's dishonest weights and measures, is a crucial element of the scam.

This book escorts you into a financial underworld.  You'll probe behind its mask of respectability and learn its deepest, darkest secrets.  Then you'll learn how to protect yourself, your loved ones, and your investments.

Money.  It's about bankers, politicians, and theft by fraud – in what may be the biggest crime in history.

SUMMING UP:

One customer described Money this way:

"It looks like an oversize copy of National Geographic magazine; but with a hard cover and dust jacket."

We say Money is about bankers, politicians, and theft by fraud.

We also say: "Money blows the whistle on how the world's most powerful crime syndicate is pulling off history's largest crime."

Money.  There's never been another book like it.

TESTIMONIALS:

"I think Money is the best introduction to American money and banking – and to economics generally – I have ever found.  That is why I have adopted it as the main textbook for my Money and Banking classes at Bellevue University." – Judd W. Patton, Ph.D., associate professor of economics, Bellevue University, Bellevue, Nebraska.

"Money covers many points for which I didn't have space in my book.  I especially appreciate the way you develop your arguments, building on a base of the Latin roots of key monetary terms.  Money and Pieces of Eight, as a team, would be a winning combination of textbooks for anyone conducting classes on the money issue." – Edwin Vieira, Jr., Ph.D., J.D. (Harvard), Attorney at Law, Author of the internationally-acclaimed Pieces of Eight: The Monetary Powers and Disabilities of the United States Constitution; President, The National Alliance for Constitutional Money, Inc., Manassas, Virginia.

"Money is especially valuable because it clearly reveals the Machiavellian nature of so much of today's monetary analysis and reporting." – The late Antony C. Sutton, D.Sc., Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Stanford University, Author of Gold Versus Paper; and Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler; and Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution; and other scholarly exposés of international corruption.

"Few honest books are written about money, inflation, banking, and institutionalized thievery.  Money is one of the best." – John F. McManus, Author of Financial Terrorism;" President, The John Birch Society, Inc.

"In my opinion, your book Money is the most comprehensive, clear and succinct exposition on its subject available today.  It's a powerful, readable exposé, sprinkled with refreshing humor and straight-line reasoning.  Money provides a solid understanding of money fundamentals, giving concise examples of how we got into today's mess.  Then it presents a lucid plan for restoring monetary sanity.  I consider Money an invaluable contribution to Americanist literature." – CEO, international financial consulting firm, Los Angeles, California.

READER COMMENTS:

". . . very well done!" – Congressman Ron Paul,MD, Texas.

"[Money pulls] together an incredibly wide range of facts and historical insight.  [It] is the ultimate reference work on money." – G. Edward Griffin, Author, Creature From Jekyll Island.

". . . a terrific book!" – Gordon Leitch, M.D. (ret.), Author, From Dollar to Counterfeit and Monetary Errors of the Supreme Court.

"I congratulate you, and emphatically state that Money is the book I have waited to see for a long time.  We have needed a simple exposition of the money problem and you have filled the void.  You have written to the voter!" – John A. Hyde, Esq., Hammond, Indiana.

[Money is] " . . . a monumental work!  In its presentation and content, it certainly outdoes anything I've seen on this subject.  That this book will be a landmark, I have no doubt." – Former bank president, now investment advisor.

[Money] " . . . is absolutely superb." – Investment advisor, Los Angeles, California.

"I got your new book Money on Tuesday.  It's AWESOME . . . beautiful and very informative." – Government lawyer, Olympia, Washington.

[Money] ". . . so dazzled me upon my receipt of it that I was unable to reply. . . .  It is gorgeous, and yet suitable for a high school level text for home schooling families worldwide." – Professional print-media journalist and editor, Washington, D.C.

[Money is] ". . .absolutely gorgeous." – Real-estate sales agent, Phoenix, Arizona.

"I loved your book." – Vic ("Trader Vic") Sperandeo, expert commodities trader, author, Methods of a Wall Street Master, financial consultant, Dallas, Texas.

[Money] ". . . will end the manufactured mystery about fractional reserve banking that the conspirators behind it have long enjoyed.  I read things here about fractional-reserve banking that I have never read anywhere else." – Alan Stang - world-renowned author, journalist (MA, Columbia University), radio talk-show host, Los Angeles California.

[Money] " . . . will soon be the authoritative reference work on the history of money in the United States of America." – Past Professor of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.

"Money underscores the importance of knowing the truth as a prerequisite to freedom.  Clergy of all denominations will appreciate the etymologies (and humor) in Money." – Pete Kelly, Religious Affairs Editor, Zenger News Service, Seattle, Washington.

"I have read Money and consider it, on the whole, a Masterpiece." – Rabbi Marvin Antelman, Ph.D., Tel Aviv, Israel.  Author, To Eliminate The Opiate, and two best-sellers, one on Hebrew law and one on chemistry.

"The best Christian stewardship is to teach others how to keep safe the wealth God gives.  An engaging book, Money, does this – it defines terms, establishes principles and offers action tips." – Edwin Elliott, Jr., Litt.D., Editor and Publisher, Christian Observer, Manassas, Virginia.

[Money] " . . . is totally awesome." – Computer programmer-consultant, Seattle, Washington.

"I enjoyed Money and recommend it to everyone who enjoys freedom." – Rabbi Daniel Lapin, President, Toward Tradition, Mercer Island, Washington.

"Your book Money is not for dummies – or for sissies." – Retired US military veteran, Portland, Oregon.

"Thank you for your outstanding book, Money." – Mr. Dee Zahner, Hesperia, California.  Author, The Secret Side of Money and The Secret Side of History; talk-show host; audio tape, book, and e-newsletter publisher.