Read By: Kevin Pariseau

This is novelistic history writing of the best kind. Admittedly, the connections
that Levenson makes -- such as suggesting that Newton's fury was driven by his
conviction that counterfeiting was a perversion of alchemical practices - are
sometimes overstretched. But the portrait he paints of a seemingly impenetrable
London underworld and a genius making his way fearlessly into it in pursuit of
a stable currency is mesmerising.

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