At once a chronicle of Wall Street itself, from the days when the wall was merely a defensive barricade built by Peter Stuyvesant, and in a broader sense, an engaging economic history of the United States, "Wall Street: A History" offers profiles of many of the colorful figures of the financial world, including Jay Gould, John Jacob Astor, John D. Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. 23 halftone illustrations.
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At once a chronicle of Wall Street itself, from the days when the wall was merely a defensive barricade built by Peter Stuyvesant, and in a broader sense, an engaging economic history of the United States, "Wall Street: A History" offers profiles of many of the colorful figures of the financial world, including Jay Gould, John Jacob Astor, John D. Rockefeller, and Cornelius Vanderbilt. 23 halftone illustrations.
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