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Reviewed on April 15, 2008
In what is essentially an extended essay, Fraser (lecturer, history, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Labor Will Rule) examines what the financial markets, as epitomized by Wall Street, have meant to America. He probes the American psyche over some 200 years to show how the Wall Street financier has been portrayed as aristocrat, confidence man, hero, and immoralist. On Wall Street's aristocratic nature, Fraser writes about the early days...Log In or Sign Up to Read More