American Rascal - How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune

From an acclaimed financial historian comes the first ever biography of Jay Gould, the greatest of the 19th century robber barons, whose brilliance, greed, and bare-knuckled tactics made him richer than Rockefeller and led Wall Street to rethink its free-for-all culture and institute its first financial reforms.

About the author

Greg Steinmetz is a partner at a money management firm in New York. He previously worked for The Wall Street Journal, where he covered investment banking before becoming Berlin Bureau Chief and then London Bureau Chief. His first book, The Richest Man Who Ever Lived: The Life and Times of Jacob Fugger, was heralded by Andrew Ross Sorkin as one of the best reads of 2015.

Summary

From an acclaimed financial historian comes the first ever biography of Jay Gould, the greatest of the 19th century robber barons, whose brilliance, greed, and bare-knuckled tactics made him richer than Rockefeller and led Wall Street to rethink its free-for-all culture and institute its first financial reforms.

Product details

• Authors: Greg Steinmetz, Steinmetz Greg
• Publisher: Harper Collins
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.09.2022
• EAN: 9781982107406
• ISBN: 978-1-982107-40-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 522 g
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Biography: business & industry, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Business, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Finance / General, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, Biography: business and industry