Geoffrey C Ward

A Disposition to Be Rich

Ferdinand Ward, the Greatest Swindler of the Gilded Age

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Children's Books
• Seitenzahl: 464
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 201mm x 130mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780345804693
• ISBN-10: 0345804694
• Artikelnr.: 36597753

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey C. Ward is the coauthor of The Civil War (with Ken Burns and Ric Burns), and the author of A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, which won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography and the 1990 Francis Parkman Prize.