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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Browder, Clifford, 1928-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, K.Y. : University of Kentucky, 1986.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Drew, Daniel, > 1797-1879.
New York Stock Exchange > Stock Exchange.
Biografie
Capitalists and financiers.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Finance.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
Capitalists and financiers > United States > Biography.
United States.
New York (State) > New York > Wall Street.
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) > Histoire.
Wall Street (New York, N.Y.) > History.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue ; 1 Beginnings; 2 Circus and Drover Days; 3 King of the Bull's Head Tavern; 4 Into Steamboating; 5 Top Dog on the River; Illustrations; 6 Wall Street; 7 Enter the Iron Horse; 8 The Best Friend a Railroad Ever Had; 9 Wartime; 10 The Virtuoso of Erie; 11 A Seminary, an Injunction, and a Loan; 12 Uncle Daniel's Little Railroads; 13 The Great Erie War: Preliminaries; 14 The Battle of Wall Street; 15 The Battles of Fort Taylor; 16 The Battle of Albany; 17 Negotiations and Peace; 18 The Greenback Lockup; 19 Respite and Return.
  • 20 Uncle Daniel Buys the Dream21 The Last Great Caper; 22 Bankruptcy; 23 The Oldest Man on the Street; Epilogue; APPENDIX: Bouck White's ""Book of Daniel Drew"": An Enduring Fake; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W.

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