The Suppressed History of American Banking

How Big Banks Fought Jackson, Killed Lincoln, and Caused the Civil War

Bear & Co 2016 PB, $16.99, pp.231, illus, notes, bib, index. ISBN 9781591432333

Xaviant Haze investigates the historical origins of the first banks in the newly constituted USA and explains how they “fought Andrew Jackson, killed Abraham Lincoln and caused the Civil War”. Jackson was the only president who paid off the national debt. You might assume this was wacky conspiracy theory-mongering, but this story is very interesting; it is also well told and very well researched.