A Disposition to Be Rich
Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age
A New York Times Notable BookThe compelling behind-the-scenes story of the greatest swindler of the Gilded Age, whose villainy bankrupted Ulysses S. Grant and stunned the world of finance-told by his great-grandson, award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward. Ferdinand Ward, the son of a Protestant missionary and small-town pastor, moved to New York at twenty-one and, in less than a decade, made himself the business partner of a former president and established himself as the Young Napoleon of Finance. In truth, he was running a massive pyramid scheme. Drawing from thousands of family documents never before examined, Geoffrey C. Ward traces his…
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- ISBN: 978-0-345-80469-3
- EAN: 9780345804693
- Produktnummer: 13747747
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 464 S.
Über den Autor
Geoffrey C. Ward is the coauthor of The Civil War (with Ken Burns and Ric Burns), and the author of A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, which won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography and the 1990 Francis Parkman Prize.
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