God and Mammon: Chronicles of American Money

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This book is about the partnership of God and Mammon in the New World--- about how Americans have made money and lost money, and about how they have thought about that obsessive and peculiarly American subject. Money is the basic American thing, the life's blood of the country. God and Mamon shows how the dynamics of money in its many dimensions (m

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Lance Morrow is one of Americas greatest and most enduring journalists and essayists. He is venerable.

Peggy Noonan

"In God and Mammonthis original, wide-traveling, and thoroughgoing essay on the troubled yet unbreakable union of Americas two deitiesLance Morrow displays the cool passion that distinguishes him among contemporary writers. No stylist is as elegant. No one has more to say about an essential subject, or says it more beautifully. A mesmerizing portrait of our gorgeous, corruptible, soul."

Roger Rosenblatt, author of Making Toast

What must it be like to write like Lance Morrow Not just with exceptional intellect and command of language, but with an enviable collection of mental furniturejust the right reference; the perfect anecdoteand a mind that remembers everything. Goodness, what a talent. What a joy to read his essays.

Robert Pondiscio, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

Brilliantly effervescent and eloquent. One can hardly wait for the appointment of the first national Prose LaureateLance Morrow. What a writer and what prose!

Lionel Tiger, Charles Darwin Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, Rutgers University

Author Bio

Lance Morrow is an American essayist whose op-ed articles regularly appear in the Wall Street Journal. He is the Henry Grunwald Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, DC. For many years, he was an essayist for TIME magazine. He is a winner of the National Magazine Award and the author of eight books, including Evil: An Investigation. Morrow lives in upstate New York with his wife, the author Susan Brind Morrow. He has two sons, James and Justin.