A disposition to be rich : 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 / by Geoffrey C. Ward.
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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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Alfred A. Knopf,
[2012], ©2012.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Physical Description: | 418 pages 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles, photographs, frontispiece ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Book |