After the Ball: Gilded Age Secrets, Boardroom Betrayals, and the Party That Ignited the Great Wall Street Scandal of 1905
- ISBN-10
- 0060958928
- ISBN-13
- 9780060958923
- Series
- After the Ball
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004-06-01
- Publisher
- Harper Collins
- Author
- Patricia Beard
Description
Traces the dramatic events surrounding the Wall Street scandal of 1905, during which a young heir to a billion-dollar company was accused of misusing funds, exposing a tangle of financial chicanery involving the period's most noted tycoons and politicians. Reprint.
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