In Green We Trust
The tumultuous history of the American dollar from phantom colonial currency through Civil War greenbacks to the gold standard's collapse.
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Chapters
15 total- 01Chapter One - The Money That Didn’t Exist
- 02Chapter Two - Trust Us, It’s Money
- 03Chapter Three - Land, Paper, Panic
- 04Chapter Four - Jackson’s War on the Monster
- 05Chapter Five - Cotton Backed Currency
- 06Chapter Six - Gold Fever
- 07Chapter Seven - The Greenback Experiment
- 08Chapter Eight - Panic, Paper, Progress
- 09Chapter Nine - Gold Standard, Broken Promises
- 10Chapter Ten - Bretton Woods and the New Empire
- 11Chapter Eleven - Nixon’s Decoupling: The Dollar Goes God Mode
- 12Chapter Twelve - Petrodollar: The Oil-Blood Pact
- 13Chapter Thirteen - Inflation, Recession, Repeat
- 14Chapter Fourteen - 2008: Faith Collapses, the Dollar Doesn’t
- 15Chapter Fifteen - The Dollarverse
Edition notes and short pages
In Green We Trust
In Green We Trust
A History of the American Dollar
by JJ
Dedication
To anyone who ever asked,
"What actually backs this?"
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
TO THE THINKERS, the breakers, the skeptics, the nerds,
the economists who accidentally told the truth,
and the readers who were ready to hear it.
To everyone who’s ever been broke,
looked at a dollar, and felt the weight of a lie.
This one’s for you.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
JJ IS A writer, builder, and myth-breaker
obsessed with how power hides in plain sight.
His work explores systems, stories, and symbols that run the world —
from invisible currencies to collapsing empires —
and the people caught in between.
This isn’t just history.
It’s the operating system.
COPYRIGHT
© 2025 JAMES JOHNSON. All rights reserved.
This book is a work of non-fiction, creative analysis, and cultural commentary.
While every effort has been made to ensure factual accuracy,
some details have been simplified or dramatized for narrative clarity.
This book is not financial advice, investment guidance, or a substitute for legal counsel.
It is a lens — use it wisely.
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system,
or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical,
without the prior written permission of the author, except for brief quotations
used in reviews, articles, or critical analysis.
Printed in the country that prints the money.