If you want to understand 'American Economics', watch this. It's fiction, but probably more accurate than the official narrative you'll read in a book.
That was a such a hard book to get through, simply because of the dialect of 18th century America and the use of not so common words used today. Had to have my dictionary handy reading that. I don't mean it was super hard, but I did find I had to re-read some sentences. Here's a random sentence I pulled out of the book. The lowest price at which coals can be sold for any considerable time is, like that of all other commodities, the price which is barely sufficient to replace, together with its ordinary profits, the stock which must be employed in bringing them to market. At as coal-mine for which the landlord can get no rent, but which he must either work himself or let it alone altogether, the price of coals must generally be nearly about this price. Not a normal way of reading that we're used to, but it does provide great value into understanding economics.