A Disposition to Be Rich: Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780345804693ISBN-10:345804694UPC:9780345804693Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, HistoryBook Subcategory:Criminals & Outlaws, Economic History, United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:7.90 x 5.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SCB7MHY184
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The 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...Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780345804693ISBN-10:345804694UPC:9780345804693Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, HistoryBook Subcategory:Criminals & Outlaws, Economic History, United StatesBook Topic:19th CenturySize:7.90 x 5.10 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.97Product ID:SCB7MHY184
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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