Historical Encyclopedia of American Business: Gould, Jay
Author: Richard L. Wilson
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 1127
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Author: Richard L. Wilson
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 1127
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Published: 2009
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles R. Geisst
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 581
ISBN-13: 1438109873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents an alphabetically-arranged reference to the history of business and industry in the United States. Includes selected primary source documents.
Author: Julius Grodinsky
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2015-09-30
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 1512816485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.
Author: Charles R. Geisst
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 292
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rick Boulware
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 1438109865
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuying, selling, budgeting, and saving are fundamental business practices that almost everyone understands on a basic level.
Author: Maury Klein
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9780801857713
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJay Gould was an individual who for a century has been singled out as the most unscrupulous of the turn-of-the-century robber barons. In this splendid biography Maury Klein paints the most complete portrait of the notorious Gould ever written. Klein's Gould is a brilliant but ruthless businessman who merged dying railroads into expansive, profit-making lines, including the giant Union Pacific. 40 illustrations.
Author: Julius Grodinsky
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 627
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Greg Steinmetz
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-08-30
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 198210743X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA gripping, “rollicking” (John Carreyrou, New York Times bestselling author of Bad Blood) biography of Jay Gould, the greatest of the 19th-century robber barons, whose brilliance, greed, and bare-knuckled tactics made him richer than Rockefeller and led Wall Street to institute its first financial reforms. Had Jay Gould put his name on a university or concert hall, he would undoubtedly have been a household name today. The son of a poor farmer whose early life was marked by tragedy, Gould saw money as the means to give his family a better life…even if, to do so, he had to pull a fast one on everyone else. After entering Wall Street at the age of twenty-four, he quickly became notorious when he paralyzed the economy and nearly toppled President Ulysses S. Grant in the Black Friday market collapse of 1869 in an attempt to corner the market on gold—an event that remains among the darkest days in Wall Street history. Through clever financial maneuvers, he gained control over one of every six miles of the country’s rapidly expanding network for railroad tracks—coming close to creating the first truly transcontinental railroad and making himself one of the richest men in America. American Rascal shows Gould’s complex, quirky character. He was at once praised for his brilliance by Rockefeller and Vanderbilt and condemned for forever destroying American business values by Mark Twain. He lived a colorful life, trading jokes with Thomas Edison, figuring Thomas Nast’s best sketches, paying Boss Tweed’s bail, and commuting to work in a 200-foot yacht. Gould thrived in an expanding, industrial economy in which authorities tolerated inside trading and stock price manipulation because they believed regulation would stifle the progress. But by taking these practices to new levels, Gould showed how unbridled capitalism was, in fact, dangerous for the American economy. This “gripping biography” (Fortune) explores how Gould’s audacious exploitation of economic freedom triggered the first public demands for financial reforms—a call that still resonates today.
Author: Murat Halstead
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Published: 1892
Total Pages: 498
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis biography heaps praise on the railroad mogul Jay Gould. It also includes brief biographies of some of his well-known business associates.