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The hellhound of Wall Street : how Ferdinand Pecora's investigation of the Great Crash forever changed American finance / Michael Perino.
Lippincott Library HB3717 1929 .P47 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perino, Michael A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pecora, Ferdinand, 1882-1971.
- Pecora, Ferdinand.
- Stock Market Crash, 1929.
- Stock exchanges--United States--History--20th century.
- Stock exchanges.
- Financial crises--United States--History--20th century.
- Financial crises.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 341 pages 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Press, 2010.
- Summary:
- A gripping account of the underdog Senate lawyer who unmasked the financial wrongdoing that led to the Crash of 1929 and forever changed the relationship between Washington and Wall Street.
- Contents:
- The well-driller and Wall Street
- The best cross-examiner in New York
- Sitting on the lid
- A short term job
- Sunshine Charley
- A mine of information
- Junior
- Day one: unimpeachable integrity
- Day two: morale
- Day three: manipulation
- Day four: legal legerdemain
- Days five and six: intermission
- Day seven: south of the border
- Day eight8: shorn lamb
- Day nine: a free and open market
- Day ten: the end of an era.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781594202728
- 1594202729
- OCLC:
- 535490494
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