@article{296496,
      author = {Renehan, Edward,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/296496},
      title = {Dark genius of Wall Street : the misunderstood life of Jay  Gould, king of the robber barons /},
      publisher = {Basic Books,},
      abstract = {Jay Gould was the robber baron's robber baron: the  greatest financial and business genius of his time and also  the most widely hated. Gould was the undisputed master of  the nation's railroads and telegraph systems at a time when  these were the fastest-growing new technologies of the age.  He created new ways of manipulating markets, assembling  capital and swallowing his competitors. Many of these  methods are now standard practice; others were among the  first practices prohibited by the SEC when it came into  being in the 1930s. Biographer Renehan combines lively  anecdotes with the rich social tapestry of the Gilded Age  to create the first balanced biography of a figure whose  stature in his era outranks that of Bill Gates, a man who  was undoubtedly the greatest financial genius of his  age--and one of the inventors of modern business.--From  publisher description.},
      recid = {296496},
      pages = {xiii, 352 p., [16] p. of plates :},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      year = {2005},
}