A historian, educator and diplomat first published this work as a short essay of lectures on the French Revolution.  It was first publicly read before the United States Congress in 1876.  In 1912 the essay was revised and enlarged "for private circulation only".  It has since been republished several times and has become a classic.  The essay was written not merely as a cold history, but as a warning to White's American contemporaries.  White underlined them because the course of inflation everywhere-- economically, psychologically, politically, and morally-- follows the same pattern.  Striking is the similarity in the actual consequences of paper money inflation in revolutionary France and inflation everywhere in the modern world.

By:  Andrew Dickson White

124 Pages

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