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|a Ward, Geoffrey C.
|0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83176418
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|a A disposition to be rich :
|b how a small-town pastor's son ruined an American president, brought on a Wall Street crash, and made himself the best-hated man in the United States /
|c by Geoffrey C. Ward.
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|a First edition.
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|b Alfred A. Knopf,
|c [2012], ©2012.
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|a 418 pages 32 unnumbered pages of plates :
|b illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, photographs, frontispiece ;
|c 25 cm
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|a "This is a Borzoi book"--Title page verso.
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|a Includes bibliographical references.
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|a pt. 1. The Puritan -- The Higher Calling -- Labouring in Hope -- Chastened and Sanctified -- pt. 2. One of the Worst Boys -- A Contest for Principle & Truth -- The Triumph of the Monster, "War" -- Suspected of Evil -- pt. 3. The Young Napoleon of Finance-- The Avaricious Spirit -- The Bonanza Man -- The Imaginary Business -- Tears of Grateful Joy -- The End Has Come -- pt. 4. The Best Hated Man in the United States -- A Magnificent and Audacious Swindle -- A Verdict at Last -- The Model Prisoner -- All That Loved Me Are in Heaven -- pt. 5. The Loving Father -- Driven to Desperation -- The Kidnapping -- Epilogue: The Loving Father.
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|a Documents the story of Gilded Age con artist Ferdinand Ward, recounting how his large-scale pyramid operation and other sensational schemes triggered one of the greatest financial scandals in American history.
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|a Ward, F. De W.
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|d 1812-1891.
|0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88663745
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|a Grant, Ulysses S.
|q (Ulysses Simpson),
|d 1822-1885
|x Friends and associates.
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|a Ward, Ferdinand De Wilton,
|d 1851-1925.
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|a Capitalists and financiers
|z United States
|v Biography.
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|a Swindlers and swindling
|z United States
|v Biography.
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|a Financial crises
|z United States
|x History
|y 19th century.
|0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008120571
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|a Ponzi schemes
|z New York (State)
|z New York
|x History
|y 19th century.
|0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00005148
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|a Children of clergy
|z New York (State)
|v Biography.
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|a HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
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|a BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.
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|a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws.
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|a Rochester (N.Y.)
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|a New York (N.Y.)
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