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Street of dreams--boulevard of broken hearts : Wall Street's first century / Howard M. Wachtel.
Lippincott Library HG4572 .W23 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wachtel, Howard M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Securities industry--United States--History--19th century.
- Securities industry.
- Stock exchanges.
- History.
- Wall Street (New York, N.Y.)--History--19th century.
- Wall Street (New York, N.Y.).
- United States.
- Stock exchanges--United States--History--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; Sterling, Va. : Pluto Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- - Popular history of Wall Street's formative years in the 19th century- Brings to life the eccentric characters that shaped the Street- Charts America's financial highs and lows- Illustrated with photographs throughout- Major media campaign with guaranteed TV & radio features and reviews
- Contents:
- 1 The Big Bang: Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of Wall Street 1
- Alexander Hamilton's Wall Street 4
- The Hamilton Project 6
- The Street's Origins 8
- Controversy and Scandal 12
- The Congressional Debate 14
- Did Hamilton Collude with Wall Street? 16
- The National Bank, William Duer and Financial Crisis 20
- The Invention of Wall Street 27
- 2 Lex Mercatoria 31
- The Arcadian Republic Versus the Law of Commerce 31
- Hamilton's Fatal Flaw 33
- Financial Regeneration on Wall Street 36
- Wall Street's Financing of the War of 1812 38
- The New York Stock & Exchange Board 39
- Nathaniel Prime 40
- The Erie Canal 42
- Leveraging Erie's Success 46
- Cultural Improvements 49
- 3 Jackson and the 1830s Bank War 52
- The Second National Bank and Nicholas Biddle 53
- James Hamilton 57
- Jackson's Message to Congress 59
- Framing the Language of Financial Politics 61
- Miscalculations 65
- The Ensuing Financial Crisis 67
- 4 The New Metropolis 71
- The Stock Brokering Profession and Wall Street Innovations 75
- The Telegraph 78
- The Clash of Classes 81
- Planning for the New Metropolis 86
- Evangelicals Confront Mammon 89
- 5 Wall Street and the Civil War 93
- A Divided Wall Street 94
- Country Versus Profits 100
- Wartime Financial Measures 102
- The Cookes of Philadelphia 104
- Wall Street Fights Back 107
- Unifying the Nation's Finances 110
- 6 Wars, Other Than Civil 113
- Railroad Wars 115
- Round Two 118
- The Gold War 124
- The Aftermath 131
- 7 Trustee Over the Nation's Economy 135
- J.P. Morgan 138
- Jacob Schiff and Edward Harriman 142
- De Facto Central Banker 144
- NYSE's Transformation 146
- Women on Wall Street 149
- Technological Alterations 157
- Pennsylvania Avenue Responds 159
- 8 The American Century 162
- Morgan's Last Hurrah 164
- The Pujo Hearings 168
- The Money Question 173
- The Great Crash and Its Aftermath 177
- A New and Better Deal 181
- The Era of Global Finance 187
- Street of Dreams - Boulevard of Broken Hearts 190.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0745319254
- OCLC:
- 50802718
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