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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 21, 2013 | Fiction
It is estimated that by 1864 50 percent of the paper money in the United States was counterfeit. This prompted the Treasury Department to establish the Secret Service in 1865 for the purpose of protecting the integrity of U.S. currency and bringing counterfeiters to justice. In 1876, on the very eve of the most-contested election in history,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on January 1, 2013
Beginning with a dramatic flashback, Sheinkin introduces readers to Pete McCartney, a captured counterfeiter who in 1864 escaped the authorities by jumping from a train. Sheinkin then launches into a history of counterfeiters; their influence on the national currency before, during, and after the Civil War; and the process of making fake mo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2013
Sheinkin shows how, desperate to spring one of their own from prison, a gang of counterfeiters hatched a convoluted plan to ro...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
