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An edition of Dark Genius of Wall Street (2005)

Dark genius of Wall Street

the misunderstood life of Jay Gould, king of the robber barons

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  • 4 Want to read

Jay Gould was the robber baron's robber baron: the greatest financial and business genius of his time and also the most widely hated. Gould was the undisputed master of the nation's railroads and telegraph systems at a time when these were the fastest-growing new technologies of the age. He created new ways of manipulating markets, assembling capital and swallowing his competitors. Many of these methods are now standard practice; others were among the first practices prohibited by the SEC when it came into being in the 1930s. Biographer Renehan combines lively anecdotes with the rich social tapestry of the Gilded Age to create the first balanced biography of a figure whose stature in his era outranks that of Bill Gates, a man who was undoubtedly the greatest financial genius of his age--and one of the inventors of modern business.--From publisher description.

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Language
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Pages
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Table of Contents

The mysterious bearded Gould
Ancestors
Twelve lines by night
A deliberate student
Rat traps and maps
Hidden mysteries of life and death
Gouldsboro
Our best friends tell us our faults
Cunning lunacy
The Gouldsboro war
A particular future
Much to get done
The Erie in chains
Blue fire
The abused machinery of the law
An almighty robbery
Scoundrels
The smartest man in America
Where the woodbine twineth
Mephistopheles
A special stinkpot
A damned villain
Transcontinental
Consolidation
Everything but a good name
Wires and els
Ambition satisfied
Epilogue: The Goulds after Jay.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-334) and index.

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Dewey Decimal Class
332.092
Library of Congress
HC102.5.G678 R46 2005, HG172.G6 R4 2005, HG172, HC102.5.G68 R46 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 352 p. :
Number of pages
352

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OL24740549M
Internet Archive
darkgeniusofwall00rene
ISBN 10
0465068855, 0465068863
ISBN 13
9780465068852, 9780465068869
LCCN
2005357392
OCLC/WorldCat
70407058, 60525025

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