If they don’t know economics, then Basic Economics and anything else by Thomas Sowell.
If they know economics, then Ways and Means by Roger Lowenstein. Highlight how reluctant Congress was to print money even when printing money was REQUIRED to win the Civil War and how the federal government created many of the financing structures (income tax, federal currency, federal banking) we still deal with today in that moment of existential crisis.
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