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100 1 $aWard, Geoffrey C.
245 12 $aA disposition to be rich :$bhow a small-town pastor's son ruined an American president, brought on a Wall Street crash, and made himself the best-hated man in the United States /$cby Geoffrey C. Ward.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2012.
300 $a418 pages, [32] pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
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500 $a"This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 389-399).
505 0 $apt. 1. The Puritan -- The Higher Calling -- Labouring in Hope -- Chastened and Sanctified -- pt. 2. One of the Worst Boys -- A Contest for Principle & Truth -- The Triumph of the Monster, "War" -- Suspected of Evil -- pt. 3. The Young Napoleon of Finance -- The Avaricious Spirit -- The Bonanza Man -- The Imaginary Business -- Tears of Grateful Joy -- The End Has Come -- pt. 4. The Best Hated Man in the United States -- A Magnificent and Audacious Swindle -- A Verdict at Last -- The Model Prisoner -- All That Loved Me Are in Heaven -- pt. 5. The Loving Father -- Driven to Desperation -- The Kidnapping -- Epilogue: The Loving Father.
520 $aDocuments the story of Gilded Age con artist Ferdinand Ward, recounting how his large-scale pyramid operation and other sensational schemes triggered one of the greatest financial scandals in American history.
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