English author, Steve Boggan with the $10 note that he shadowed across America, described in his book 'Follow the Money'. Boggan is a journalist for UK newspapers and magazines and so by setting free a ten-dollar bill and accompanying it on an epic journey for thirty days and thirty nights across 3,300 miles armed only with a sense of humour and a small, and increasingly grubby, set of clothes. He wrote his book in order to trace the life of the bill - but also to discover something of the lives of modern Americans in an age when plastic cards have largely overtaken the use of paper money in everyday use, especially in small town America.
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