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A Disposition to Be Rich: Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age

A Disposition to Be Rich: Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age

Ward, Geoffrey C.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralEconomics19th Century United States History

ISBN10: 0345804694
ISBN13: 9780345804693
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Apr 23 2013
Pages: 464
Weight: 0.97
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

A New York Times Notable Book

The compelling behind-the-scenes story of the greatest swindler of the Gilded Age, whose villainy bankrupted Ulysses S. Grant and stunned the world of finance--told by his great-grandson, award-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward.

Ferdinand Ward, the son of a Protestant missionary and small-town pastor, moved to New York at twenty-one and, in less than a decade, made himself the business partner of a former president and established himself as the Young Napoleon of Finance. In truth, he was running a massive pyramid scheme. Drawing from thousands of family documents never before examined, Geoffrey C. Ward traces his great-grandfather's rapid rise to riches and fame, and his even more dizzying fall from grace, in a narrative populated with mistresses, crooked bankers, corrupt New York officials, and a desperate kidnapping scheme. Here is a great story about a classic American con artist.

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