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- Product code: 3385
- ISBN: 1556231512,
ISBN13: 9781556231513,
246 pages, hardback
Published by Traders Press on 1989
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Description of Lore and Legends of Wall Street |
This is the story of the street - Wall Street, the events that shaped it and the characters that made and lost fortunes in the arenas that flanked it. Written in an informative, entertaining style, this book contains more than 50 vignettes of market history that range from colonial times to the present day.
Sharp's research into historical characters like Captain Kidd, Cornelius Vanderbilt, John Jacob Astor, Jesse Livermore, and Hetty Green - 'The Witch of Wall Street' - provides drama and curious insights into the people behind the names. His inside look at Wall Street is the single source for information on the lore and legends of one of America's foremost industries.
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Contents of Lore and Legends of Wall Street |
PART 1: The Colonial Period (1553-1720)
1. The Merchant Adventurers (1553)
2. Blue Chips in a Golden Age (1602)
3. Manhattan - The Place Where We All Got Drunk (1609)
4. Finance by Lottery (1612)
5. Tiger Bones (1613)
6. The Short Sale of Manhattan (1626)
7. Tulipomania (1637)
8. Colonial Currency (1650)
9. Pegleg's Palisade
10. The Great Wampum Corner (1666)
11. The Pirate and His Church (1696)
12. The Mississippi Company (1719)
13. South Sea Bubbles (1720)
PART II Birth of a Nation (1776-1835)
14. Financier of the Revolution (1776)
15. Father of his Country (1789)
16. Alexander Hamilton's Stocks (1790)
17. The Big Board and the Buttonwood Tree (1792)
18. Burr's Waterworks and Bank (1799)
19. The Landlord of New York (1801)
20. Other People's Money (1809)
21. Watered Stock (1819)
22. Morrison Kennel (1835)
PART III: The Gilded Age (1848-1872)
23. Bulls and Bears (1848)
24. Chicken Mania (1853)
25. The First Bear on Wall Street (1857)
26. The Commodore's Corners (1863)
27. Scarlet Lady of Wall Street (1868)
28. Jubilee Jim (1868)
29. Jay Gould's Gold (1869)
30. His Touch was Death (1869)
31. Where are the Customers' Yachts? (1870)
32. The Silver Fox (1872)
PART IV: The Money Game (1875-1901)
33. The Specialist (1875)
34. The General's Last Battle (1884)
35. The Witch of Wall Street (1884)
36. The Scribblers (1889)
37. The Money King (1891)
38. The Bucket Shop (1892)
39. The Northern Pacific Corner (1901)
40. Big Steel (1901)
41. Barbed Wire and Bet-a-Million (1901)
PART V: The Global Street (1907-1939)
42. The Grain Aphis (1907)
43. Common Stocks for the Common Man (1915)
44. Lord of the Currency (1919)
45. Bombing the Street (1920)
46. The Kerb (1921)
47. Come to Florida (1925)
48. Bernie Makes the Double Finesse (1929)
49. Out of the Ashes (1929)
50. Crash (1929)
51. Systematic - The Templeton Way (1939)
PART VI: The Computer Age (1949 - )
52. The Intelligent Investor (1949)
53. Wall Street's Alchemists (1953)
54. A Bell, A Rose, and Telephone (1957)
55. Silver Bulls (1979)
56. The Day the Computer Ran Away (1987)
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