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Article: Family Undertaking.(Ahead)('Currency of the Heart')(Book Review)(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine
- Article date:
- February 1, 2003
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Byline:SEAN O'NEILL
A new genre--the personal-finance memoir--may have been born in Currency of the Heart (University of Iowa Press, $25). Writer Don Nichols, former director of communications for the U.S. Mint, tracks how he took charge of his mother's finances after his father's death from cancer.
Nichols gives a clear, numbers-free explanation of the changes he made to the family portfolio--and to his ...