The Art of Making Money
| Author: | Kersten, Jason |
| Genre: | Memoir or Biography |
| Written in the year 2009 and set in the time period: Mainly 1990s | |
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| Originally entered by James Schellenberg (Nov-09) | |
| Rating: | 8/10 |
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This book is subtitled The Story of a Master Counterfeiter, and it's about a man named Art Williams who grew up poor in Chicago and discovered that he had a knack for counterfeiting money. That was both his ticket out of a life of grinding poverty and his destruction - the recurring theme in the book is that counterfeit money basically corrupts everyone around you. That's friends, family, yourself, anybody and everybody. At the time of writing, Williams was serving a short sentence in jail for his crimes and vowing to never counterfeit again; in the afterword, Kersten writes that Williams was caught for counterfeiting again within a few years and was back in prison. The book provides lots of detail about life in Chicago and the crime scene in the Chicago area; Williams visits Texas several times, and picks up a girlfriend there; he also treks to Alaska to reunite with his estranged father, a situation which degenerates quickly due to the all-corrupting nature of fake money. Quite an interesting story at the same time as it's incredibly depressing.
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