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The man who made Wall Street : Anthony J. Drexel and the rise of modern finance / Dan Rottenberg.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks HG 2463 .D66 R67 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rottenberg, Dan.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drexel, Anthony J. (Anthony Joseph), 1826-1893.
- Drexel, Anthony J.
- Bankers--United States--Biography.
- Bankers.
- Capitalists and financiers--United States--Biography.
- Capitalists and financiers.
- Bankers--Biography.
- United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Drexel, Anthony J.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2001.
- Summary:
- Anthony also was a partner and mentor to J.P. Morgan, installing the young man in a New York branch of Drexel, Morgan & Co. that helped establish Wall Street as the enduring center of American finance.
- Contents:
- Part 1. Survival. The artist as fugitive
- The making of a currency broker
- Part 2. Success. "As good a bargain as possible"
- "A wild and reckless people"
- Part 3. Struggle. "The Yankees did not whip us in the field"
- The rise of George Childs
- The delusions of Jay Cooke
- Part 4. Power. "A first-class businessman"
- Panic and progress
- The perils of partnership
- Railroad boom
- Part 5. Salvation. Reluctant Titan
- Two social revolutionaries
- The burden of conscience
- Epilogue: The death and rebirth of the house of Drexel.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-241) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0812236262
- 9780812236262
- 081221966X
- 9780812219661
- OCLC:
- 46685257
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