- We will send in 10–14 business days.
/images/books/9754108/9781436357869.jpg)
- Author: Patricia Beard
- Publisher: Xlibris
- ISBN-10: 1436357861
- ISBN-13: 9781436357869
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.7 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English
- SAVE -10% with code: EXTRA
Reviews
Description
Glamorous, cultured, and ambitious -- but fatally young and nai ve -- James Hazen Hyde was twenty-three when he inherited the majority shares in the billion-dollar Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1899. Five years later, at the pinnacle of social and financial success, he made a fatal miscalculation, and set in motion the first great Wall Street scandal of the twentieth century.
On the last night of January 1905, Hyde gave one of the most fabulous balls of the Gilded Age. Falsely accused of charging the party to his company, he was sucked into a maelstrom of allegations of corporate malfeasance that involved the era's most famous financiers and industrialists. The shocking revelations that followed commanded hundreds of front-page stories and led to a government investigation that became a nationwide obsession and changed the law.
Set against a backdrop of magnificence, excess, and corrupting glamour, "After the Ball"'s themes are stunningly fresh: greed and chicanery, flawed love between fathers and sons, and contradictory American attitudes about wealth.
EXTRA 10 % discount with code: EXTRA
The promotion ends in 22d.22:04:41
The discount code is valid when purchasing from 10 €. Discounts do not stack.
- Author: Patricia Beard
- Publisher: Xlibris
- ISBN-10: 1436357861
- ISBN-13: 9781436357869
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 2.7 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Glamorous, cultured, and ambitious -- but fatally young and nai ve -- James Hazen Hyde was twenty-three when he inherited the majority shares in the billion-dollar Equitable Life Assurance Society in 1899. Five years later, at the pinnacle of social and financial success, he made a fatal miscalculation, and set in motion the first great Wall Street scandal of the twentieth century.
On the last night of January 1905, Hyde gave one of the most fabulous balls of the Gilded Age. Falsely accused of charging the party to his company, he was sucked into a maelstrom of allegations of corporate malfeasance that involved the era's most famous financiers and industrialists. The shocking revelations that followed commanded hundreds of front-page stories and led to a government investigation that became a nationwide obsession and changed the law.
Set against a backdrop of magnificence, excess, and corrupting glamour, "After the Ball"'s themes are stunningly fresh: greed and chicanery, flawed love between fathers and sons, and contradictory American attitudes about wealth.
Reviews