Men and Mysteries of Wall Street (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781596059719)

Now it can be told The secrets and insider knowledge of high finance-as the industry stood in 1878-are all revealed here in this curious and now entirely historical work of post-Civil War financial journalism. Discover. . how the New York Stock Exchange operated before the telephone . what kept the "machinery of speculation" greased . the scheming of 19th-century stockbrokers . the "habits and humors" of the Street at the time . and more

Author: James K. Medbery
ISBN-10: 1596059710
ISBN-13: 9781596059719
Publisher: Cosimo Classics
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2006
Pages: 372
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.83d