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In The Great Game, acclaimed business historian John Steele Gordon chronicles the rise of Wall Street from its humble beginnings as an American trading post to its domination of the world economy, bringing to life the remarkable cast of bankers and brokers, visionaries and crooks who made it... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Jay Gould: Add a description of this character.
- Daniel Drew
- Grant
- Alexander Hamilton
- Ryan
- J. P. Morgan Jr.
- Jim Fisk
- Graham
- Richard Whitney
- Duer
- Kennedy
- Andrew Jackson
- Erie
- Durant
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Clinton
- Cooke
- Corbin
- Morse
- Heinze
- Harriman
- Schwab
- Stutz
- Loeb
- Kuhn
- Jacob Little
- Wilson
- Stokes
- Beane
- Burr
- Frank Work
- Hill
- Gibbons
- Haack
- John D. Rockefeller
- Jacob Schiff
- Henry Clews
- Leonard Jerome
- Barnard
- William Worthington Fowler
Setting & Locations edit
- Wall Streeters
- New York City
- United States
- Europe
- London
- Philadelphia
- Harlem
- Washington
- Albany
- New Jersey
- New England
- Germany
- Boston
- Pennsylvania
- Manhattan
- Gold Room
- Broad Street
- Hudson River
- Atlantic
- Russia
- Great Britain
- North America
- Butte
- Chicago
- California
- Macomb
- Buffalo
- France
- Stuyvesant
- San Francisco
- East River
- Paris
- New York Central
- Baltimore
- Netherlands
- New York Public Library
- West Indies
- White House
- Ohio
- Austria
- Canada
- Nieuw Amsterdam
First Sentence edit
Among its innumerable other distinctions, New York is the only major city in the United States ever to have been walled.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in The Goldman Sachs Suggested Reading List - Industry Background & Flavour. (authoritative list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- John Steele Gordon (Author)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 338
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