The Book of Daniel Drew

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Cosimo, Inc., 2005 M05 1 - 240 páginas
"He Who Sells What Isn't His'n Must Buy it Back or Go to Pris'n." --"Uncle Dan'l" Drew Long out of print and virtually unavailable for years, THE BOOK OF DANIEL DREW is the irresistible story of a country boy who grew up to become Wall Street's first great speculator. Told for the most part in his own salty language - of his early life as a cattle drover, as a profiteer of "watered" cattle (a scheme he later used in the stock deal in the famed Erie Railroad operation), of his building of a fortune on Wall Street and of his epic struggles with Commodore Vanderbilt including his unholy alliances with Gould, Fisk and Boss Tweed. Originally published in 1910, THE BOOK OF DANIEL DREW is a true classic of the stock market. It's a fascinating look at an era in American financial history whose ethos was "anything goes" and anything did!

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A Militiaman in the War of 1812
4
Early Circus Days
11
Life as a Drover
15
A Backslider
19
Origin of the Wall Street Term Watered Stock
22
Astor Seeks an Interview
29
Life at the Bulls Head Tavern
32
Pioneer Cattle Driving
40
Gets Control of the Erie
76
Wall Street in the Civil War
85
A Visit from Boss Tweed
90
The Railroad to Harlem
94
Building of Churches California Parker
100
Meets Jim Fisk
108
War with Vanderbilt
113
The Printing Press
120

Farewell to a Drovers Life
46
Early Steamboat Days on the Hudson
49
Commodore Vanderbilt Loses a Steamboat
58
Wall Street
61
The Church on Mulberry Street
67
The Erie Railroad
71
Escape to Jersey City
127
Fort Taylor
132
End of the War and Treaty of Peace
140
Drew Theological Seminary
153
A Red Letter Day
158
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