Wall Street [electronic resource] : America's dream palace / Steve Fraser.

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008.

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Wall Street: no other place on earth is so singularly identified with money and the power of money. And no other American institution has inspired such deep moral, cultural, and political ambivalence. Is the Street a bulwark defending commercial order? Or is it a center of mad ambition? This book recounts the colorful history of America's love-hate relationship with Wall Street. Historian Steve Fraser frames his analysis around the roles of four iconic Wall Street types--the aristocrat, the confidence man, the hero, and the immoralist--all recurring figures who yield surprising insights about how the nation has wrestled, and still wrestles, with fundamental questions of wealth and work, democracy and elitism, greed and salvation.--From publisher description.

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Print version: Fraser, Steve, 1945- Wall Street. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2008

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October 03, 2019

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-192) and index.