The History Of The Money Kings Of Wall Street

Author : William Worthington Fowler
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ISBN 13 : 9781331929642
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Twenty Years of Inside Life in Wall Street written by William Worthington Fowler and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-21 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Twenty Years of Inside Life in Wall Street: Or Revelations of the Personal Experience of a Speculator, Including Sketches of the Leading Operators and Money Kings, the Great Rises and Panics, the Mysteries of the Rings, Pools, and Corners, and How Fortunes Are Made and Lost on Change Hon. William Worthington Fowler, the author of this work, is a grandson of Noah Webster, and the author of several other volumes. He has been a member of the Connecticut Senate and House of Representatives, and held numerous other prominent positions. He is now Chairman of the Commission appointed by the Governor of Connecticut to examine and report as to the expediency of adopting an amended orthography of the Public Documents. This Commission embraces some of the most eminent scholars in the country. In addition to his public and literary labors, Mr. Fowler has had long and varied experiences in financial matters. Ten years since he embodied these experiences in a volume which was so well received that forty thousand copies were sold in a short period, though the price of the work was fixed at three dollars. John G. Whittier wrote to the author, "Thy book is full of interest. Its descriptions of the tremendous games of speculation, the rise and fall of fortune, the reckless regard and desperate adventure which shocked and disturbed the world are exceedingly graphic and spirited." Charles Sumner, Salmon P.Chase, George S. Boutwell, Benson J. Lossing, John G. Saxe, and very many other individuals of prominence wrote in similarly complimentary terms to the author regarding his entertaining work. Nearly one hundred and fifty newspapers, including all the leading journals of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, and other cities, gave most flattering notices of the volume, and it was everywhere read with avidity. Mr. Fowler has now recast his original book of ten years ago and brought it up to date, including the colossal stock movements of the latter half of 1879, and given us twenty instead of ten years of his individual experiences and observations in the great maelstrom of speculation. The work is valuable, if for nothing more, as showing to the uninitiated how unsatisfactory are the efforts to acquire fortunes by speculation, and warning them against the dangerous pitfalls in which Wall street abounds. But the writer in graphically describing his own financial vicissitudes, running through twenty years, conveys at the same time a vast amount of entertaining and valuable information regarding the financial operators and operations of that period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.