How to Get Rich the American Way: Classic financial advice that worked (and didn’t) throughout time

In How to Get Rich the American Way, history scholar and investor Joseph Moore unpacks the fascinating stories, folklore, forgotten bestsellers and confident claims about money in America for everyday people around the world.In the course of searching for an ageless wisdom of wealth, he confronts the many mistaken beliefs, on both the cultural right and left, that persist about money. Like The Psychology of Money meets Freakonomics, How to Get Rich the American Way harnesses the insights of academic history into a popular narrative of change over time, both in financial strategies and in the lives of Americans whose wealth got better (or worse) by using them. How to Get Rich the American Way is based on years of in-depth research by a contrarian academic who become rich himself while developing the book's theories, learning the history of real estate investing, stock trading, get-rich-quick schemes, and financial gurus. From Nigerian prince scams to the investment manuals of housewives