LEADER 03337nam 22006734a 450 001 9910455169503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-35217-2 010 $a9786612352171 010 $a0-300-14508-X 010 $a1-282-08862-9 010 $a9786612088629 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300145083 035 $a(CKB)1000000000764784 035 $a(EBL)3420545 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000268775 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11222190 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000268775 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10235890 035 $a(PQKB)10935686 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420545 035 $a(DE-B1597)484986 035 $a(OCoLC)379425399 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300145083 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420545 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348440 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208862 035 $a(OCoLC)923594086 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000764784 100 $a20070829d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWall Street$b[electronic resource] $eAmerica's dream palace /$fSteve Fraser 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2008 215 $a1 online resource (209 p.) 225 1 $a[Icons of America] 300 $aSeries from jacket. 311 $a0-300-11755-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 181-192) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tOne. The Aristocrat -- $tTwo. The Confidence Man -- $tThree. The Hero -- $tFour. The Immoralist -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aWall Street: no other place on earth is so singularly identified with money and the power of money. And no other American institution has inspired such deep moral, cultural, and political ambivalence. Is the Street an unbreachable bulwark defending commercial order? Or is it a center of mad ambition? This book recounts the colorful history of America's love-hate relationship with Wall Street. Steve Fraser frames his fascinating analysis around the roles of four iconic Wall Street types-the aristocrat, the confidence man, the hero, and the immoralist-all recurring figures who yield surprising insights about how the nation has wrestled, and still wrestles, with fundamental questions of wealth and work, democracy and elitism, greed and salvation. Spanning the years from the first Wall Street panic of 1792 to the dot.com bubble-and-bust and Enron scandals of our own time, the book is full of stories and portraits of such larger-than-life figures as J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Michael Milken. Fraser considers the conflicting attitudes of ordinary Americans toward the Street and concludes with a brief rumination on the recent notion of Wall Street as a haven for Everyman. 410 0$aIcons of America. 606 $aCapitalists and financiers$zUnited States$vBiography 607 $aWall Street (New York, N.Y.)$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCapitalists and financiers 676 $a332.64/273 686 $aNW 2562$2rvk 700 $aFraser$b Steve$f1945-$0525193 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455169503321 996 $aWall Street$92460443 997 $aUNINA