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The Money Game in Old New York : Daniel Drew and His Times /

""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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Autor principal: Browder, Clifford, 1928-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, K.Y. : University of Kentucky, 1986.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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 (336 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9780813162249