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What do you do if you want to really understand a country, to understand its people and feel its heartbeat? You can follow the rest of the tourists, or you can take the advice of Watergate reporter Bob Woodward's source, 'Deep Throat', and 'follow the money.'Starting out in Lebanon, Kansas - the geographical centre of America - journalist Steve Boggan did just that by setting free a ten-dollar-bill and accompanying it on an epic journey for thirty days and thirty nights through six states across 3,000 miles armed only with a sense of humor and a small, and increasingly grubby, set of clothes. As he cuts crops with farmers in Kansas, pursues a repo-woman from Colorado, gets wasted with a blues band in Arkansas and hangs out at a quarterback's mansion in St Louis, Boggan enters the lives of ordinary people as they receive - and pass on - the bill.
About the Author
Steve Boggan has been a journalist for more than 30 years, 12 of them as chief reporter at The Independent and, later, as feature writer with The Times, Guardian and Daily Mail. His journalism has also appeared in the Sunday Times Magazine, the Observer Magazine, Guardian Weekend Magazine and The Independent Saturday Magazine.
His books, Gold Fever: One Man's Adventures on the Trail of the Gold Rush, and Follow the Money: A Month in the Life of a Ten-dollar Bill, were each chosen as BBC Radio Books of the Week.
He is co-producer of an award-winning documentary called Follow the Money, inspired by the book of the same name, and has been named in Time Out's Culture 100 list of the most original and influential people in the creative and media industries.
Boggan also lectures in journalism at Goldsmiths, University of London. He lives in east London with his wife, Suzanne.
