Disposition to Be Rich Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age

Name: Disposition to Be Rich Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age
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ISBN: 9780345804693

ISBN-10: 0345804694

ISBN-13: 9780345804693

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Authors: Geoffrey C. Ward

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Ferdinand Ward was the greatest swindler of the Gilded Age. Throughhis unapologetic villainy, he bankrupted Ulysses S. Grant and ran roughshod over the entire world of finance. Now, his compelling, behind-the-scenes story is told—told by his great-grandson, award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward.Ward was the Bernie Madoff of his day, a supposed genius at making big money fast on Wall Street who turned out to have been running a giant pyramid scheme—one that ultimately collapsed in one of the greatest financial scandals in American history. The son of a Protestant missionary and small-town pastor with secrets of his own to keep, Ward came to New York at twenty-one and in less than a…

Book details

List price: $29.99
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/23/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 464
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 0.924

Geoffrey C. Ward won the national Book Critics Circle Award in 1989. He is the author of Unforgiveable Blackness and, with Ken Burns, he is co-author of The Civil War and Jazz.



Prologue


The Puritan


The Higher Calling


Labouring In Hope


Chastened and Sanctified


One of the Worst Boys


A Contest for Principle & Truth


The Triumph of the Monster, "War"


Suspected of Evil


The Young Napoleon of Finance


The Avaricious Spirit


The Bonanza Man


The Imaginary Business


Tears of Grateful Joy


The End Has Come


The Best-Hated Man in the United States


A Magnificent and Audacious Swindle


A Verdict at Last


The Model Prisoner


All That Loved Me Are in Heaven


The Loving Father


Driven to Desperation


The Kidnapping


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Notes


Bibliography


Index