Every Man a Speculator A History of Wall Street in American Life

Name: Every Man a Speculator A History of Wall Street in American Life
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ISBN: 9780066620497

ISBN-10: 006662049X

ISBN-13: 9780066620497

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Authors: Steve Fraser

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Americans have experienced a love-hate relationship with Wall Street for two hundred years. Long an object of suspicion, fear, and even revulsion, the Street eventually came to be seen as an alluring pathway to wealth and freedom. Steve Fraser tells the story of this remarkable transformation in a brilliant, masterfully written narrative filled with colorful tales of confidence men and aristocrats, Napoleonic financiers and reckless adventurers, master builders and roguish destroyers. Penetrating and engrossing, this is an extraordinary work of history that illuminates the values and the character of our nation.

Book details

List price: $18.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/7/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 768
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 1.23" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

Steve Fraser is a writer and historian living in New York.



Preface


Introduction



Buccaneers and Confidence Men on the Financial Frontier



Revolution and Counterrevolution



Monsters, Aristocrats, and Confidence Men



From Confidence Man to Colossus



Wall Street in Coventry



The Imperial Age



The Engine Room of Corporate Capitalism



The Great Satan



Wall Street and the Decline of Western Civilization



Wall Street Is Dead! Long Live Wall Street!



Other People's Money



War and Peace on Wall Street



A Season in Utopia



The Age of Ignominy



Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?



Evicted from the Temple



The Long Good-bye



The World Turned Upside Down



The Return of the Repressed



Shareholder Nation


Notes


Index