Europe s financial crisis cannot be blamed on the Euro, Harold James contends in this probing exploration of the whys, whens, whos, and what-ifs of European monetary union. The current crisis goes deeper, to a series of problems that were debated but not resolved at the time of the Euro s invention. Since the 1960s, Europeans had been looking for a way to address two conundrums simultaneously: the dollar s privileged position in the international...