Currency of the heart
Subtitle: a year of investing, death, work & coins
By: Donald R. Nichols.
Series: Sightline books
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
Subjects: Finance, Personal -- Case studies.; Decedent's estates -- Iowa.; Fathers and sons -- Iowa -- Biography.
Genres: Case studies.; Biography.
Description: "In 1998, Don Nichols returned regularly to Iowa from his life and job in Washington, D.C., to be with his dying father and to oversee his parents' investments.

A veteran investor and investment author, Nichols found that managing the portfolio entrusted to him brought a larger understanding of mortality, family, love, work, and the choices he had made as "an agri-kid who took the road out of town and kept going." In this insightful and money-wise book that grew out of that experience, he merges the emotions of a dutiful son with the actions of a knowledgeable investor.".

"Nichols uses money in myriad forms - a grandfather's silver dollar, stocks and bonds, salaries, pallets of coins at the U.S. mint, on-the-job dealings with coin collectors - as touchstones for reflections on relationships, motives, and a career "like one of those moving walkways in airports.""--BOOK JACKET.