[ An] excellent book, by one of the worlds leading economic journalists and authors.Martin Wolf, Financial Times, Best Summer Books of Summer 2025: Economics
[ A] fast-moving narrative.James Grant, Wall Street Journal
An engaging account.Max Harris, Financial Times
[ Blustein] writes clearly and vividly on important issues that many might find esoteric, perhaps boring. If you are still unconvinced about the dollar remaining king, read this.Stephen Grenville, The Interpreter
Magisterial.Edward Chancellor, Reuters
Highly readable. . . . [ Blustein] brings a seasoned reporters sensibility to the subject.Maurice Obstfeld, Project Syndicate
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Impressively ambitious . . . extensive and highly instructive.Ian Harwood, Society for Professional Economists
Scholarly and readable.Edward Chancellor, Times Literary Supplement
Few people write about international economic issues more clearly and entertainingly than Paul Blustein. In King Dollar he applies those skills to dismantling the ever-recurring arguments that the status of the dollar as the worlds preeminent currency is under threat.Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Lords of Finance
Economics may be the dismal science, but nobody told Paul Blustein. He has given us a lively and authoritative account of why the international dominance of the dollar could continue.James M. Boughton, author of Harry White and the American Creed: How a Federal Bureaucrat Created the Modern Global Economy (and Failed to Get the Credit)
A must read for anyone worried about the future of the dollar in a world split by geopolitical rivalries and rapid innovations in currencies and payments systems.Kristin Forbes, professor, MIT Sloan School of Management
In this sizzling account of why the dollar has survived, Paul Blustein spins a tale that reaches from nineteenth-century bank porters to the volatile Obama-Trump-Biden years. Blustein is the unrivaled master of making banking and money compelling, clear, and lively.Roger Lowenstein, author of Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War