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American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street’s Biggest Fortune

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The gripping biography of Jay Gould, the greatest 19th-century robber barons, whose brilliance, greed, and bare-knuckled tactics made him richer than Rockefeller and led Wall Street to institute its first financial reforms. Drawing on biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context, the narrative gives American Rascal a concrete sense of time, place, and consequence. Across the book, how jay gould built wall street’s biggest fortune becomes a way to examine power, adaptation, responsibility, and change within biography & autobiography and business & economics.

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781982107406