Although not strictly about coins, the book I’m reviewing this month has coins and coin collecting in it, particularly at the beginning. It is the memoir of Kenneth Rendell, who was a coin collector and dealer early in his life before branching out into buying and selling historical documents. Along the way, Rendell put together the world’s most comprehensive collection of World War II artifacts.
Safeguarding History, presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin tells us in the book’s Foreword, is written by a “. . . master storyteller, with keen insight into the motivations of people. . .” Along the way, “Rendell