The story of Wall Street /
by Robert Irving Warshow.
- New York : Blue Ribbon Books, 1929. New York : Greenberg, Publisher, Inc., 1929.
- 362 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 24 cm
Includes "A note on the bibliography" (pages 348-353), index, and list of illustrations.
Preface -- Chapter: I. Wall Street grows up -- II. The beginning of large-scale enterprise -- III. Jacob Little, the first of the manipulators -- IV. Drew and Vanderbilt -- V. Jay Gould -- VI. The Erie Raids and the passing of Vanderbilt -- VII. Drew tries to come back -- VIII. The gold conspiracy and Black Friday -- IX. Millionaires in support -- X. Jay Cooke crashes -- XI. Jim Keene, Cyrus Field and others -- XII. The evolution of "big business" -- XIII. Rockefeller and oil -- XIV. Hill and Harriman -- XV. Carnegie, Steel, and the Pittsburgh millionaires -- XVI. J. Pierpont Morgan -- XVII. Henry Ford, William Durant, the Fisher brothers and the automobile -- XVIII. The war and Wall Street -- XIX. The bloodless revolution -- XX. The development of the exchange -- A note on the bibliography -- Index.
"It is Wall Street which mirrors the financial progress of the nation, and the men of Wall Street who share largely in its development. This book is the story of those men and the events around which their activities center. It is the story of the leaders of the millions who follow the quotations; the men who make them. They have done this, sometimes by good judgment in anticipation, sometimes by forced manipulation, sometimes by accident. But always in action, always in battle. And it is this steady contest, carried on with progressive magnitude and cunning, which makes our story the more interesting in material." -- From the preface.
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