عنوان

Every man a speculator :

شابک

0061464279

شابک

0061464287

شابک

9780061464270

شابک

9780061464287

شابک اشتباه

0571218296

شابک اشتباه

9780571218295

شماره

b725106

عنوان اصلي

Every man a speculator :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

a history of Wall Street in American life /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Steve Fraser.

وضعيت ويراست

1st ed.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

New York, NY :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

HarperCollins e-books,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2007.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource.

متن يادداشت

Title from PDF title page (viewed Oct. 8, 2007).

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index.

متن يادداشت

pt. 1. Buccaneers and confidence men on the financial frontier. -- Revolution and counterrevolution -- Monsters, aristocrats, and confidence men -- From confidence man to colossus -- Wall Street in Coventry -- pt. 2. The imperial age. -- The engine room of corporate capitalism -- The great Satan -- Wall Street and the decline of Western Civilization -- Wall Street is dead! long live Wall Street! -- Other people's money -- War and peace on Wall Street -- A season in Utopia -- pt. 3. The age of Ignominy. -- Who's afraid of the big bad wolf? -- Evicted from the temple -- The long good-bye -- pt. 4. The world turned upside down. -- The return of the repressed -- Shareholder nation.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

For more than two hundred years, Americans have enjoyed a love-hate relationship with Wall Street. Long an object of suspicion and fear, it eventually came to be seen as a more inviting place, an open road to wealth and freedom. Peeling away the layers of myth surrounding this fabled street, Steve Fraser shows that the remarkable transformation of Wall Street as a cultural icon -- its odyssey from perdition to salvation, from darkness into light -- is a story that goes to the heart of the American character. Long before we became a shareholder nation, back when only a minuscule part of the country's population invested, Wall Street had already provoked America's collective imagination. From the days when Alexander Hamilton was forced to confess his marital infidelities in order to defend his vision of the Republic's financial future, to Gordon Gekko's mantra "Greed is good" in the movie Wall Street, Americans have always been preoccupied with the virtues and sins of the stock market. Indeed, Wall Street is the place where we have constantly returned to wrestle with our ancestral attitudes about work and play, equality and wealth, God and mammon, heroes and villains, national purpose and economic well-being. Beginning in the Revolutionary era, Every Man a Speculator reveals the extraordinary power of Wall Street and its impact on our democracy; the moral dilemma posed for a society committed to the work ethic yet lured by the promise of instant wealth; and the chronic tension between our native egalitarianism and the forces of social hierarchy unleashed by the Street. In doing so, it spans the ages, from Captain Kidd's sojourn on the Street through the Civil War and Great Depression to the present day, when power brokers stalk the canyons of lower Manhattan speculating on the fate of whole nations. In Every Man a Speculator, Steve Fraser brings this epic history to life with colorful tales of confidence men and aristocrats, Napoleonic financiers and reckless adventurers, master builders and roguish destroyers, men to the manor born and men from nowhere. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, this is a gripping, powerful chronicle that casts new light on the metamorphosis of our nation's most cherished values.

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

OverDrive, Inc.

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

OverDrive, Inc.

شماره انبار

41DA6252-491D-4920-8866-03810C201D3D

عنوان

Every man a speculator.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

0571218296

موضوع مستند نشده

Investments-- United States-- History.

موضوع مستند نشده

Securities industry-- United States-- History.

موضوع مستند نشده

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Investments & Securities-- General.

موضوع مستند نشده

Investments.

موضوع مستند نشده

Securities industry.

موضوع مستند نشده

United States.

بدون عنوان

7

موضوع مستند نشده

BUS-- 036000

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Fraser, Steve,1945-

تاريخ عمليات

20201213091624.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y