Follow the Money: A Month in the Life of a Ten-dollar Bill
Steve Boggan
Starting out in Lebanon, Kansas – the geographical centre of America – journalist Steve Boggan set free a ten-dollar-bill and accompanied it on an epic journey for thirty days and thirty nights through six states across 3,000 miles armed only with a sense of humour 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. Add to that the missionaries from Missouri, the Amish in Michigan, the banker from Chicago and the deer hunters from Detroit, and what emerges is a chaotic, affectionate and funny portrait
of a modern-day America that tourists rarely see.
