Finance ✦ Penny’s Take 📱 Kindle
Blood and Money
David McNally · 2020
80/100
👍 Worth It
This is serious, rigorously argued history — David McNally traces money's origins straight through slavery and war finance, and Noam Chomsky himself called it fascinating and rich in novel insights. It's dense and unapologetically ideological, so know what you're signing up for, but the scholarship holds up.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: extensive historical treatment of slavery and violence — heavy subject matter for mature adult readers. We still scored it 80; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety68
Substance / usefulness88
Craft & writing78
Originality82
Evidence & accuracy80
Hype vs delivers65
Age-fit55
Human-eye read75
Penny’s verdict80
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