Title:
American rascal : how Jay Gould built Wall Street's biggest fortune / Greg Steinmetz.
ISBN:
9781982107406
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Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, 2022.
©2022
Physical Description:
xvii, 300 pages ; 24 cm
Contents:
School Days -- The Seduction of Zadock Pratt -- Tanners War -- This Thing Ambition -- Influencers -- Erie -- Sardines -- The Flight -- Peculiar Affairs -- Good Morning, Commodore -- Prophet of Regulation -- Gold -- The Plot -- The Mix-up -- Pump and Dump -- Black Friday -- The Day After -- The Reckoning -- Fisk's Reward -- Cows in the Moonlight -- Union Pacific -- Edison -- Dirty Tricks -- In Gould's Grip -- Acquisitions -- Western Union -- Elevated -- Wares at a Bazaar -- Terror -- The Strike -- A Gould Wedding -- In the Dock -- Bad News -- Morgan -- Change at the Top -- Woodlawn -- An Appraisal.
Summary:
"This is a spry biography of Gilded Age financier Jay Gould, who pioneered the business model of the Wall Street shark"-- Provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
on1281582571
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