Wall Street

Name: Wall Street
Rating: 3.79 (254 reviews)
Author: Charles R Geisst
ISBN: 9780195130867

Charles R Geisst

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Language: English

Published by Oxford University Press Inc, 1999

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Wall Street is the stuff of legend and a source of nightmares, a force so powerful in American societyDSand, indeed, in world economics and cultureDSthat it has become an almost universal symbol of both the highest aspirations of commercial success and the basest impulses of greed and deception. How did such a small, concentrated pocket of lower Manhattan come to have such an enormous influence in national and world affairs? In this wide-ranging volume, economic historian Charles Geisst answers this question as he provides the first history of Wall Street, ranging over two centuries from the loose association of traders meeting on New York sidewalks and coffee houses in the late 18th century, to the modern billion-dollar computer-driven colossus of today. Taking in the Gold Rush, the economic boom (for the North) of the Civil War, the great stock market crash of 1929, and the junk bond frenzy and the merger mania of the 1980s, this is a tale of profits and losses, endlessly enterprising spirits, and the role Wall Street played in helping America become the most powerful economy in the world.…

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Title: Wall Street
Author: Charles R Geisst
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Publication year: 1999
Condition: Good
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0195130863
ISBN 13: 9780195130867

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"Geisst's history ends in 1996, on an optimistic note, with the stock market forging ever higher. But the pages that have come before, chronicling the unending stream of wipeouts after similar investment booms, leaves one appropriately skeptical about how long these good times will last.... A quick-reading history of the United States as told through the doings of bankers and brokers."--The Washington Post "A thorough retelling of a critical--though often overlooked--aspect of U.S. history. Wall Street will be enjoyed not just by the warriors who work there but also by the growing legions of Main Street investors whose retirements depend on the fortunes of the stock market."--The Wall Street Journal "Geisst's history ends in 1996, on an optimistic note, with the stock market forging ever higher. But the pages that have come before, chronicling the unending stream of wipeouts after similar investment booms, leaves one appropriately skeptical about how long these good times will last.... A quick-reading history of the United States as told through the doings of bankers and brokers."--The Washington Post "A thorough retelling of a critical--though often overlooked--aspect of U.S. history. Wall Street will be enjoyed not just by the warriors who work there but also by the growing legions of Main Street investors whose retirements depend on the fortunes of the stock market."--The Wall Street Journal "Geisst's history ends in 1996, on an optimistic note, with the stock market forging ever higher. But the pages that have come before, chronicling the unending stream of wipeouts after similar investment booms, leaves one appropriately skeptical about how long these good times will last.... A quick-reading history of the United States as told through the doings of bankers and brokers."--The Washington Post "A thorough retelling of a critical--though often overlooked--aspect of U.S. history. Wall Street will be enjoyed not just by the warriors who work there but also by the growing legions of Main Street investors whose retirements depend on the fortunes of the stock market."--The Wall Street Journal "Geisst's history ends in 1996, on an optimistic note, with the stock market forging ever higher. But the pages that have come before, chronicling the unending stream of wipeouts after similar investment booms, leaves one appropriately skeptical about how long these good times will last.... A quick-reading history of the United States as told through the doings of bankers and brokers."--The Washington Post "A thorough retelling of a critical--though often overlooked--aspect of U.S. history. Wall Street will be enjoyed not just by the warriors who work there but also by the growing legions of Main Street investors whose retirements depend on the fortunes of the stock market."--The Wall Street Journal

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