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Author: Steven FraserPublisher: Harpercollins
ISBN-10: 0066620481Subject: Business & Economics
ISBN-13: 9780066620480Topic: General Business
Format: HardcoverLanguage: --
Publication Year: 2005Condition: Brand New
Special Attributes: 1st Edition  
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For more than two hundred years, Americans have enjoyed a love-hate relationship with Wall Street. Long an object of suspicion and fear, it eventually came to be seen as a more inviting place, an open road to wealth and freedom. Peeling away the layers of myth surrounding this fabled street, Steve Fraser shows that the remarkable transformation of Wall Street as a cultural icon -- its odyssey from perdition to salvation, from darkness into light -- is a story that goes to the heart of the American character.

Long before we became a shareholder nation, back when only a minuscule part of the country's population invested, Wall Street had already provoked America's collective imagination. From the days when Alexander Hamilton was forced to confess his marital infidelities in order to defend his vision of the Republic's financial future, to Gordon Gekko's mantra "Greed is good" in the movie Wall Street, Americans have always been preoccupied with the virtues and sins of the stock market.

Indeed, Wall Street is the place where we have constantly returned to wrestle with our ancestral attitudes about work and play, equality and wealth, God and mammon, heroes and villains, national purpose and economic well-being. Beginning in the Revolutionary era, Every Man a Speculator reveals the extraordinary power of Wall Street and its impact on our democracy; the moral dilemma posed for a society committed to the work ethic yet lured by the promise of instant wealth; and the chronic tension between our native egalitarianism and the forces of social hierarchy unleashed by the Street. In doing so, it spans the ages, from Captain Kidd's sojourn on the Street through the Civil War and Great Depression to the present day,when power brokers stalk the canyons of lower Manhattan speculating on the fate of whole nations.

In Every Man a Speculator, Steve Fraser brings this epic history to life with colorful tales of confidence men and aristocrats, Napoleonic financiers and reckless adventurers, master builders and roguish destroyers, men to the manor born and men from nowhere. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, this is a gripping, powerful chronicle that casts new light on the metamorphosis of our nation's most cherished values.



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"Comprehensive, considered, and literate: a real accomplishment."
Kirkus  (12/01/2004)

"Though its title suggest a focus on financial affairs. it belongs on the shortlist of books that encompass or illuminate the entire trajectory of American experience....EVERY MAN's ambitious breadth is matched by investigative depth....The range and abundance [Fraser] has uncovered gives the book great authority....[T]he writing is so vivid, the sensibility so witty, the analysis so theoretically astute (yet utterly jargon free), that readers will shoot successfully through the occasional eddies and rapids."
Nation - Mike Wallace (04/18/2005)

"...Fraser...has a keen grasp of his material, and his vivacious style and historical perspective carry us through the tumults....Fraser is by no means an undiscerning booster. He writes discerningly on the nexus of politics and finance. He offers an appraisal of the 19th-century Populist agitation about 'the money trust' sucking blood out of the agrarian heartland that is uncommonly sympathetic and on the mark...[Fraser] deserves a cheer for his long ascent to the summit. He offers us a panoramic view of decades of high endeavor and low greed."
New York Times Book Review - Harold Evans (03/13/2005)


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Price on dust jacket is 29.95, this is a new book.History of Wall Street.

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