The Great American Swindle Incorporated
by A. Newton Plummer
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good condition, upper and lower covers scuffed and soiled, board edges rubbed and worn, corners bruised, paper edges dust-s
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About This Item
New York: A. Newton Plummer, 1932. First edition, limited to 2000 copies, this copy unnumbered. Hardcover, large octavo, quarterbound illustrated boards, 318 pp. Very good condition, upper and lower covers scuffed and soiled, board edges rubbed and worn, corners bruised, paper edges dust-soiled, front free endpaper ink marked. A. Newton Plummer's self-published historical study of securities and stock fraud at the New York Stock Exchange in the 1920s. The author supplied data and research to La Guardia to aid his testimony during the Pecora Investigation by Senate Committee on Banking and Currency in March 1932. The aim of the hearings was to reveal how financial institutions knowingly misled investors while consulting values, behavior that was revealed to have led to the 1929 stock market crash. Behaviors that have proved irremediable on Wall Street in the 90 years since. Full-page satirical cartoons at each chapter break.
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- Bookseller
- Better Read Than Dead (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2202
- Title
- The Great American Swindle Incorporated
- Author
- A. Newton Plummer
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, large octavo, quarterbound illustrated boards, 318 pp
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good condition, upper and lower covers scuffed and soiled, board edges rubbed and worn, corners bruised, paper edges dust-s
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, limited to 2000 copies, this copy unnumbered
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- A. Newton Plummer
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- Wall Street, the great american swindle, A. Newton Plummer, Pecora
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