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
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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

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