Edwin Lefevre

Broschiertes Buch

The Golden Flood

Beschreibung

The young man with his deposits of nineteen and one-half millions-and more to come-troubled the president. With that much cash, Grinnell already was a potential disturber of finance. With much more he could be infinitely worse-to the public and to the great moneyed interests. -from The Golden Flood This financial mystery novels revolves around an enigmatic young man who deposits ever-increasing sums of gold bars into a large bank, much to the bank president's bemused chagrin. A century after its original publication in 1905, this remains must reading for those looking for insight into the driving forces of modern economies, and the nature of the people who influence it. Also available from Cosimo Classics: Lefevre's The Plunderers. American journalist EDWIN LEFEVRE (1871-1943) also authored the short fiction collected in Wall Street Stories (1901), the novel Sampson Rock of Wall Street (1906), and the based-on-fact Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (1923).

Autor

Edwin Lefevre was an American journalist, writer, and diplomat most known for his publications about Wall Street industry. George Edwin Henry Lefevre was born on January 23, 1871, in Colón, Colombia (now the Republic of Panama). He was the son of Emilia Luísa María Santiago de la Ossa, sister of Jeronimo and María de la Ossa de Amador, and Henry Lefevre (1841-1899). Henry was born in Jersey, the Channel Islands, and immigrated to the United States as a child. For many years, Henry served as the Pacific Steamship Company American's general agent in Panama. Their son, Edwin, had dual citizenship and was sent to the United States as a boy. He finished his study at Lehigh University, where he trained as a mining engineer. However, at the age of nineteen, he began his profession as a journalist, later becoming a stockbroker. Following his father's death, Edwin acquired considerable money and became an independent investor. While living in Hartsdale, New York, Edwin Lefèvre released a collection of his short stories titled Wall Street Stories in 1901. This was followed by other novels on money and finance until 1908, when Lefèvre, his wife Martha, and their children relocated to an estate in East Dorset, Vermont. Panama selected him as its ambassador to Spain and Italy in 1909.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cosimo Classics
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 275g
• ISBN-13: 9781596054882
• ISBN-10: 1596054883
• Artikelnr.: 21436922