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Wall Street : America's dream palace

Author: Steve Fraser
Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008.
Series: Icons of America.
Edition/Format:  eBook : Document : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Electronic books
Biography
History
Additional Physical Format: Print version:
Fraser, Steve, 1945-
Wall Street.
New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008
(DLC) 2007035453
(OCoLC)170202968
Material Type: Biography, Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Steve Fraser
ISBN: 9780300145083 030014508X 0300117558 9780300117554 1282088629 9781282088627 1282352172 9781282352179
OCLC Number: 379425399
Notes: Series from jacket.
Description: 1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations.
Contents: The Aristocrat --
The confidence man --
The hero --
The Immoralist.
Series Title: Icons of America.
Responsibility: Steve Fraser.
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Wall Street: no other place on earth is so singularly identified with money and the power of money. This book recounts the colourful history of America's love-hate relationship with Wall Street. It  Read more...

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