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Article: Bernstein takes a witty and sardonic look at the alluring metal.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- October 12, 2000
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``The Power of Gold,'' by Peter L. Bernstein (John Wiley and Sons, $27.50)
Like the alluring and mysterious metal it focuses upon, Peter L. Bernstein's "The Power of Gold" sparkles.
The author mines a mother lode of information on gold and melds it into a rich amalgam of mythology, history, politics and economics that is enlightening and entertaining. Bernstein's history of gold is a story that has needed telling exactly the way he has told it.
Bernstein begins his account with a conundrum posed by John Ruskin. The 19th-century British philosopher related the story of a man who went on an ocean voyage carrying all his wealth in a bag full of ...