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The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance
by Rottenberg, Dan
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- Condition
- VG
- ISBN 10
- 0812236262
- ISBN 13
- 9780812236262
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About This Item
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001. Hardbound. VG. Brown cloth boards w/ color pictorial DJ, [xvii] 262pp, 16 page insert of BW figures. From the publisher--The second son of an Austrian emigre, Anthony Drexel (1826-1893) soon established himself as the preeminent financial mind in the Philadelphia currency brokerage his father began in 1838. Shunning publicity, self-promotion, and high-profile public accolades (he declined President Ulysses S. Grant's invitation to become Secretary of the Treasury), Drexel initiated a partnership with J. P. Morgan and his father, Junius, that became the most powerful financial combination of its age. Today, Anthony J. Drexel's influence and accomplishments are mostly forgotten or credited to others, but after decades of detective work and careful research, Dan Rottenberg has succeeded in writing the first biography of this exceptionally influential and elusive man. Since Drexel gave no interviews, kept no diaries, held no public offices, and destroyed most of his personal papers, Rottenberg had painstakingly to track down every reference and anecdote he could find and, in the process, discovered 150 previously unknown letters and cables in Drexel's hand. Drexel believed that there is no limit to what one can accomplish if one doesn't mind who gets the credit, but as The Man Who Made Wall Street shows, the balance has finally been paid in full.
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- Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 126602
- Title
- The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance
- Author
- Rottenberg, Dan
- Format/Binding
- Hardbound
- Book Condition
- Used - VG
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0812236262
- ISBN 13
- 9780812236262
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- Biography / Autobiography ; Drexel, Anthony J. ; ;
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