A disposition to be rich, how a small-town pastor's son ruined an American president, brought on a Wall Street crash, and made himself the best-hated man in the United States, Geoffrey C. Ward
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A disposition to be rich, how a small-town pastor's son ruined an American president, brought on a Wall Street crash, and made himself the best-hated man in the United States, Geoffrey C. Ward
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historybiography
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A disposition to be rich
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Geoffrey C. Ward
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how a small-town pastor's son ruined an American president, brought on a Wall Street crash, and made himself the best-hated man in the United States
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The compelling, unknown, 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, the award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward
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- Rochester (N.Y.) -- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY + General
- HISTORY + United States + 19th Century
- Grant, Ulysses S., Ulysses Simpson, 1822-1885 -- Friends and associates
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General
- Downloadable audio books
- Audiobooks
- Swindlers and swindling -- United States -- Biography
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS + General
- Children of clergy -- New York (State) -- Biography
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY + Criminals & Outlaws
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS + Economic History
- Ward, Ferdinand De Wilton, 1851-1925
- Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography
- Financial crises -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Ponzi schemes -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
- Ward, F. De W., Ferdinand De Wilton, 1812-1891
- HISTORY + General
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- Rochester (N.Y.) -- Biography
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY + General
- HISTORY + United States + 19th Century
- Grant, Ulysses S., Ulysses Simpson, 1822-1885 -- Friends and associates
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / General
- Downloadable audio books
- Audiobooks
- Swindlers and swindling -- United States -- Biography
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS + General
- Children of clergy -- New York (State) -- Biography
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT)
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY + Criminals & Outlaws
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical
- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS + Economic History
- Ward, Ferdinand De Wilton, 1851-1925
- Capitalists and financiers -- United States -- Biography
- Financial crises -- United States -- History -- 19th century
- Ponzi schemes -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
- Ward, F. De W., Ferdinand De Wilton, 1812-1891
- HISTORY + General
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