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The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield: A Tragedy of the Gilded Age (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780307743251)
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xThe two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War traces the extraordinary downfall of financier Jubilee Jim, bringing to life New York's Gilded Age and some of its legendary players, including Boss William Tweed, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the railroad tycoon Jay Gould.
Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier James "Jubilee Jim" Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City figure. From his audacious attempt to corner the gold market in 1869 to his battle for control of the geographically crucial Erie Railroad, Fisk was a flamboyant exemplar of a new financial era marked by volatile fortunes and unprecedented greed and corruption. But it was his scandalously open affair with a showgirl named Josie Mansfield that ultimately led to his demise.
Author: H. W. Brands
ISBN-10: 030774325X
ISBN-13: 9780307743251
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 05/31/2011
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.27w x 0.68d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2011
Booklist 05/15/2011 pg. 13
Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand Central Hotel in 1872, financier James "Jubilee Jim" Fisk, Jr., was a notorious New York City figure. From his audacious attempt to corner the gold market in 1869 to his battle for control of the geographically crucial Erie Railroad, Fisk was a flamboyant exemplar of a new financial era marked by volatile fortunes and unprecedented greed and corruption. But it was his scandalously open affair with a showgirl named Josie Mansfield that ultimately led to his demise.
Author: H. W. Brands
ISBN-10: 030774325X
ISBN-13: 9780307743251
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 05/31/2011
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 7.97h x 5.27w x 0.68d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/01/2011
Booklist 05/15/2011 pg. 13
By H. W. Brands
xH. W. BRANDS holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin. A New York Times bestselling author, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in biography for The First American and Traitor to His Class.
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