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Cargando... The Gold Ring: Jim Fisk, Jay Gould, and Black Friday, 1869 (1988)por Kenneth D. Ackerman
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Arrived Lausanne Admittedly I am a Kenneth Ackerman fan, I find his work on 19th Century America nearly faultless. It is always well researched, documented and compelling and this book is no exception. I had recently finished Grant's biography which, if you have read it, contains little more than a topographical cover of his life and times and looked to this book to get a little more meat on one of the major controversy's of his presidency. This book delivers that and much more. Grant is portrayed as naive at the least and Fisk and Gould (two of the more interesting characters of the period) are fleshed out in full order. The back story of how these two personalities worked the East Coast Financial Markets is still relevant today and the details of their machinations are worthy of a play by Shakespeare. If you are interested in the Gilded Age, the robber barons, financial markets or just human deviousness I highly recommend this book. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In The Gold Ring, Capitol Hill veteran Kenneth D. Ackerman tells the story of two dazzling con men who rose to the top of the Erie Railway Company before fixing their ambitions on a scam so great it would make them two of the richest men in America--and cement their reputation as two of the most corrupt. They were Jay Gould, the ruthless self-promoter who came to be recognized as the most hated, if brilliant, man of his generation, and his partner, the extravagant showman Jim Fisk, whose insatiable indulgences finally led to his demise. Featuring a cast of supporting characters that includes Boss Tweed, Albert Cardozo, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Ulysses S. Grant, The Gold Ring evokes an age of scandal and depravity in the world of high finance that makes today's climate of corporate excess and deception seem positively tame by comparison. Featuring numerous historic photographs, this is a compelling and fiercely entertaining insight into Wall Street's early years. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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