Título: Every Man A Speculator - A history of Wall Street in American Life - Capa Dura
Autor: Steve Fraser
Editora: Harper Collins
Ano: 2005
Estante: História Geral
Peso: 1295gr
Idioma: Inglês

Descrição: Páginas: 720 -- Formato: 16,5 X 23,5 -- Capa Dura -- Conservação: Em bom estado de capa e miolo, livre de grifos e anotações. Livro Every Man A Speculator - A history of Wall Street in American Life - Capa Dura - Steve Fraser
 
For more than two hundred years, Americans have enjoyed a love-hate relationship with Wall Street. Long an object of suspicion and fear, it eventually came to be seen as a more inviting place, an open road to wealth and freedom. Peeling away the layers of myth surrounding this fabled street, Steve Fraser shows that the remarkable transformation of Wall Street as a cultural icon -- its odyssey from perdition to salvation, from darkness into light -- is a story that goes to the heart of the American character.
Long before we became a shareholder nation, back when only a minuscule part of the country's population invested, Wall Street had already provoked America's collective imagination. From the days when Alexander Hamilton was forced to confess his marital infidelities in order to defend his vision of the Republic's financial future, to Gordon Gekko's mantra "Greed is good" in the movie Wall Street, Americans have always been preoccupied with the virtues and sins of the stock market.