Twenty-six-year old Patrick Bateman is an educated, intelligent, and handsome New York businessman, who comes from old money and murders people in his spare time.
Gilded Age secrets, boardroom betrayals, and the party that ignited the great Wall Street scandal of 1905
Beard, Patricia
2003
Chronicles the events surrounding the James Hyde's fall from Wall Street grace in 1905 when one mistake cost him everything and lead to one of the greatest financial scandals of the twentieth century.
Presents Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener," in which Bartleby, a copyist at a New York City law office, begins to inexplicably refuse work with the line "I would prefer not to"; and "Benito Cereno," a story of rebellion aboard a slave ship.
Chronicles two hundred years in the history of Wall Street, from the post-Revolutionary War era to the late twentieth century, emphasizing the events and personalities that have given the market its unique character, and discussing the power it wields in the world's economies.
Presents an illustrated, decade-by-decade history of Wall Street, providing information about the people, crises, and daily events that characterized "The Street" throughout the twentieth century.
