Wall Street : America's dream palace / Steve Fraser.
2008
HG172.A2 F72 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
Wall Street : America's dream palace / Steve Fraser.
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ISBN
9780300117554 (alk. paper)
0300117558 (alk. paper)
0300117558 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New Haven : Yale University Press, c2008.
Language
English
Description
200 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
HG172.A2 F72 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
332.64/273
Summary
Wall Street: no other place on earth is so singularly identified with money and the power of money. And no other American institution has inspired such deep moral, cultural, and political ambivalence. Is the Street a bulwark defending commercial order? Or is it a center of mad ambition? This book recounts the colorful history of America's love-hate relationship with Wall Street. Historian Steve Fraser frames his analysis around the roles of four iconic Wall Street types--the aristocrat, the confidence man, the hero, and the immoralist--all recurring figures who yield surprising insights about how the nation has wrestled, and still wrestles, with fundamental questions of wealth and work, democracy and elitism, greed and salvation.--From publisher description.
Note
Series from jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-192) and index.
Series
Icons of America
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