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The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse
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The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse

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Kamensky presents the startling story of an early American dreamer whose wily schemes made him a founding father of speculative capitalism. 40 b&w ... Show synopsis

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    Hardcover, 2008

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BruceHH

History Repeats, tho' not exactly

by BruceHH on Aug 17, 2012

The subtitle, A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse, is an extremely short description of the book. Its copyright date of 2008 means it was written before the financial collapse of that year. Andrew Dexter, Jr. is the character of the title. One can argue that he ... More

RJS!

Much Ado About Nothing

by RJS! on Jan 20, 2011

Well, this is a great subject and Kamensky has certainly done her homework. But the result is a great disappointment: the subject of paper money and its role in the early nineteenth century is an important one, but if you start out by assuming paper bad, specie good, you're going to miss the point. ... More

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