00:00 Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. “How did America begin? What was its primordial element?” The answer, essayist Lance Morrow argues in his book God and Mammon: Chronicles of American Money, is money. “Money is an indelicate explanation of America, perhaps, but the truest one—or anyway, the most intelligent starting point.” This week on The World in Time, Lewis H. Lapham and Morrow discuss money and America, its primacy at our foundi...