@article{453791, recid = {453791}, author = {Ward, Geoffrey C.}, title = {A disposition to be rich : how a small-town pastor's son ruined an American president, brought on a Wall Street crash, and made himself the best-hated man in the United States /}, publisher = {Alfred A. Knopf,}, address = {New York :}, pages = {418 p., [32] p. of plates :}, year = {2012}, note = {"This is a Borzoi book"--T.p. verso.}, abstract = {Documents the story of Gilded Age con artist Ferdinand Ward, recounting how his large-scale pyramid operation and other sensational schemes triggered one of the greatest financial scandals in American history.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/453791}, }