The money game in old New York : Daniel Drew and his times /

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""I got to be a millionaire afore I know'd it hardly, "" remarked the Wall Street financier Daniel Drew (1797-1879). An uneducated farm boy from Putnam County, New York, he became in turn a successful cattle drover, a circus clown, tavern keeper, a shrewd Hudson River steamb...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Browder, Clifford, 1928-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, K.Y. : University of Kentucky, ©1986.
Temas:
Drew, Daniel, > 1797-1879.
Drew, Daniel, > 1797-1879
New York Stock Exchange > Stock Exchange.
Geschichte 1825-1875.
Capitalists and financiers > United States > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
Capitalists and financiers
Biografie
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) > History.
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) > Histoire.
New York (State) > New York > Wall Street
United States
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:""I got to be a millionaire afore I know'd it hardly, "" remarked the Wall Street financier Daniel Drew (1797-1879). An uneducated farm boy from Putnam County, New York, he became in turn a successful cattle drover, a circus clown, tavern keeper, a shrewd Hudson River steamboat operator, and an unscrupulous speculator. As the colorful ""Uncle Daniel"" of Wall Street-his whiskered face seamed with wrinkles and twinkling with steel-gray eyes -- time and again he disrupted the financial markets with manipulations whereby he either won or lost millions of dollars. Having ""got religion"" upon heari
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 319 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-307) and index.
ISBN:9780813162249
0813162246

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