Wall Street : America's dream palace / Steve Fraser

By:

Fraser, Steve, 1945-

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780300117554 (hardback : alkaline paper)
0300117558 (hardback : alkaline paper)
9780300151435 (paperback)
0300151438 (paperback)

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

HG172.A2

Contents:

The Aristocrat -- The confidence man -- The hero -- The Immoralist.

Summary: 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 analysis around the roles of four iconic Wall Street types--the aristocrat, the confidence man, the hero, and the immoralist--all recurring figures who yield surprising insights about how the nation has wrestled, and still wrestles, with fundamental questions of wealth and work, democracy and elitism, greed and salvation.--From publisher description.

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Cover image	Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Vol info	URL	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Item hold queue priority	Course reserves
	Book - Reference	M. Kamal Hassan Library	M. Kamal Hassan Library	IBFIM Collection	Special Collection Shelf	sibf HG 172 A2 F842W 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below))					Cataloguing			11100389741

Series from jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index

The Aristocrat -- The confidence man -- The hero -- The Immoralist.

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 analysis around the roles of four iconic Wall Street types--the aristocrat, the confidence man, the hero, and the immoralist--all recurring figures who yield surprising insights about how the nation has wrestled, and still wrestles, with fundamental questions of wealth and work, democracy and elitism, greed and salvation.--From publisher description.