Shortfall : family secrets, financial collapse, and a hidden history of American banking /

The rollicking true story of a 1930s version of Bernie Madoff-and the building and loan crash he helped precipitate-in a wonderful work of narrative nonfiction by the Gustavus Myers book award winner Shortfall opens with a surprise discovery in an attic-boxes filled with letters and documents hidden...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Echols, Alice (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New Press, [2017]
Temas:
Davis, Walter Clyde.
1919-1933
Embezzlement > Colorado > Case studies.
Financial crime > Colorado > Case studies.
Savings and loan associations > Corrupt practices > Colorado > Case studies.
Abus de confiance > Colorado > Études de cas.
Associations d'épargne et de prêt > Pratiques déloyales > Colorado > Études de cas.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Embezzlement.
Savings and loan associations > Corrupt practices.
United States > History > 1919-1933.
États-Unis > Histoire > 1919-1933.
Colorado.
United States.
Case studies.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: captain nothing
  • Advertisements for himself
  • The loan man
  • Racketeers and suckers
  • Slipping through your fingers
  • Sowing grief
  • The port of missing men
  • Orphans in the storm
  • Epilogue.

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