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America's Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve by Roger Lowenstein is a nonfiction history of American finance and political economy. It examines how the United States moved from a fragmented and unstable banking system toward the creation of the Federal Reserve in 1913. Lowenstein focuses on the long conflict over who should control money, how banking should be organized, and whether centralized authority could coexist with American suspicion of government power. The book covers the period from the early republic through the Progressive Era, using the creation of the Fed as a lens for understanding broader tensions in American society, including region, class, and ideology. Rather than treating central banking as a dry institutional story, it presents the Fed's origin as a political struggle shaped by crises, competing reform plans, and ambitious personalities.