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The first Wall Street
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the birth of American finance
By Wright, Robert C. M.
- ISBN
- 978-0-22691-026-0
- Publisher
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on December 5, 2005
In his lively, absorbing look at the early history of America's financial markets, Wright (Origins of Commercial Banking in America, 1750-1800; Hamilton Unbound: Finance and the Creation of the American Republic) brings to life the financiers and their institutions with colorful prose that teases out the human drama beneath the ledgers and account books. Wright's approach is decidedly egalitarian: high-profile movers and shakers such as...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
