Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons
by Edward J. Renehan Jr.
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Jay Gould was the robber baron's robber baron: the greatest financial and business genius of his time and also the most widely hated. Gould was the undisputed master of the nation's railroads and telegraph systems at a time when these were the fastest-growing new technologies of the age. He created new ways of manipulating markets, assembling capital and swallowing his competitors. Many of these methods are now standard practice; others were among the first practices prohibited by the SEC show more when it came into being in the 1930s. Biographer Renehan combines lively anecdotes with the rich social tapestry of the Gilded Age to create the first balanced biography of a figure whose stature in his era outranks that of Bill Gates, a man who was undoubtedly the greatest financial genius of his age--and one of the inventors of modern business.--From publisher description. show lessTags
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Interesting topic and well written. A quick read which makes some effort at debunking some of the earlier un-researched claims of previous bios.
Fascinating reading, the possibilities of stock dealing has changed since the late 1800, with more regulations and restrictions these days. Interesting end to the book in the epilogue of Gould descendants and their success and failures.
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- Canonical title
- Dark Genius of Wall Street: The Misunderstood Life of Jay Gould, King of the Robber Barons
- Original publication date
- 2005
- People/Characters
- Charles Francis Adams, Jr.; Henry Adams (mentioned); John B. Alley; Frederick Ames; Oakes Ames; Oliver Ames (show all 315); O. H. P. Archer; Elisha Atkins; Ransom Balcom (Judge); Francis Channing Barlow; George C. Barnard (Judge); William A. Beach; William Belden; August Belmont; James Gordon Bennett, Jr.; John Bigelow (mentioned); B. H. Bixbey; James G. Blaine; Edwin Bok; Orrin Rice Bouton; George S. Boutwell; James A. Garfield; George Brodrick; George St. Johns Brodrick; Guinevere Brodrick; Jane Brodrick; James Brooks; Edward Burhans; Hamilton Burhans; Martha Burhans; Mary More Burhans; Aaron Burr, Sr.; Sarah Burr; John Burroughs; Joseph L. Burt; Daniel Butterfield; Albert Cardozo (Judge); Frank Carpenter; Robert E. Carr; Boni Castellane, Jr.; Elizabeth Castellane; Ernest Paul Boniface de Castellane ('Boni'); Yvonne Castellane (Patenotre); Robert B. Catherwood; Simon D. Champion; John Champlin; W. O. Chapin; Walter S. Church; Horace F. Clark; Silas H. H. Clark; T. W. Clerke; Henry Clews (mentioned); Bourke W. Cochran; Schuyler Colfax; Washington Connor; William F. Cook; Abel Rathbone Corbin; Mary Ann Corbin; Virginia Grant Corbin (Mrs. Abel Rathbone Corbin); Charles Courter; Jasper Cropsey; Abel Crosby; George Crouch; Henry E. Davies (Judge); Andrew Jackson Davis; Noah Davis; Alexandra Villard De Borchgrave; Chauncey M. Depew; John E. Develin; Gordon Dexter; Beda Dickerman; Esther Dickerman; John F. Dillon; Sidney Dillon; John Adams Dix (as John A. Dix); Daniel Drew; Anthony Drexel; Marjorie Gould Drexel; J. A. Du Bois; William Butler Duncan; Thomas Clark Durant; John B. Dutcher; D. B. Eaton; Thomas T. Eckert; Thomas Edison (as Thomas A. Edison); John Eldridge; William M. Evarts; Cyrus W. Field (as Cyrus Field); David Dudley Field; James Fisk, junior; James Fisk, Sr.; Lucy Moore Fisk; Minna Fisk; John Murray Forbes; William Fowler; Charles Frost; Robert H. Fuller; Robert Fulton (mentioned); John Gardner; James Abram Garfield; John W. Garrett; Cornelius Kingsland Garrison (as Commodore Garrison); William Garrison; Thomas Gibbons; Jasper W. Gilbert (as Judge Gilbert); Cyrus O. Godfrey; Abraham Gold (great grandfather of Jay Gould); Esther Bradley Gold (great-great grandmother of Jay Gould); Nathan Gold (ancestor of Jay Gould); Nathan Gold, Jr. (ancestor of Jay Gould); Samuel Gold (great-great grandfather of Jay Gould); Talcott Gold (cousin of Jay Gould); Abraham Gould (grandfather of Jay Gould); Abram Gould (brother of Jay Gould); Anna Gould (daughter of Jay Gould); Anna Gould (sister of Jay Gould); Anna Osborne Gould (grandmother of Jay Gould); Bettie Gould (sister of Jay Gould); John Gould (Captain); Daniel Gould (ancestor of Jay Gould); Edith Gould; Edith Kingdon Gould (daughter-in-law of Jay Gould); Edwin Gould (son of Jay Gould); Edwin Gould, Jr. (grandson of Jay Gould); Eliza Gould; Florence La Caze Gould; Frank Gould (son of Jay Gould); Frank Miller Gould (grandson of Jay Gould); George Jay Gould (son of Jay Gould); George Jay Gould III; George Jay Gould II (grandson of Jay Gould); Gloria Gould (mentioned); Helen Gould ('Nellie', daughter of Jay Gould); Helen Kelly Gould; Helen Day Miller Gould ('Ellie'); Hezekiah Gould (ancestor of Jay Gould); Howard Gould (son of Jay Gould); Jay Gould; Jay Fred Gould (nephew of Jay Gould); Jay Gould II (grandson of Jay Gould); John Burr Gould (father of Jay Gould); Kingdon Gould (grandson of Jay Gould); Kingdon Gould, Jr.; Marjorie Gould; Mary Gould; Mary More Gould (mother of Jay Gould); Mary 'Polly' Gould (sister of Jay Gould); Mary Ann Corbin Gould; Maugham Carter Gould; Nancy Gould (sister of Jay Gould); Sarah Gould Northrop (sister of Jay Gould); Sarah Cantine Shrady Gould; Sophia Kegler Gould; Viola Kathrine Clemmons Gould; Helen Vivien Gould Beresford, Baroness Decies (as Vivien Gould Horsley-Beresford); John Goulding; Julia Dent Grant; Ulysses S. Grant; Amos Gray; Carlos S. Greeley; Horace Greeley; Norvin Green; Daniel Guggenheim; George Hall; Alexander Hamilton (mentioned); Oliver Harriman (mentioned); W. H. Harriman (mentioned); George Harrington; Clara Harris Rathbone; Ira Harris; Fanny Harrod; William T. Hart; Nehemiah Hayes; Robert A. Heath; William Heath; John Hilton; James B. Hodgskin; A. L. Hopkins; Arthur Beresford, 6th Baron Decies (as Arthur George Marcus Douglas de la Poer Horsley-Beresford); John Beresford, 5th Baron Decies (as John Graham Hope de la Poer Horsley-Beresford, 5th Baron Decies); Asahel Hough (Reverend); Elizabeth Hughes; Collis P. Huntington; Julia Pratt Ingersoll; Robert Green Ingersoll; Daniel P. Ingraham; Israel Inman; Edward Jaffray; Leonard Jerome; Eben D. Jordan; James R. Keene; John Kelso; Philip Barton Key; Maury Klein; Elizabeth de Castellane La Force; Jean Comte de Caumont La Force (Jean Bertrand Jacques Adrien Nompar Comte de Caumont La Force); Frederick Lane; Frank Lawlor; David W. Lee; Charles M. Leupp; Laura Leupp; Abraham Lincoln; William A. H. Loveland; Tommy Lynch; Henry Mitchell MacCracken; Charles MacIntosh; Ferdinand Mangold; Helen Josephine Mansfield (Josie); Joseph J. Marrin; Nathaniel Marsh; Henry Martin; Hugh Masterson; Henry McComb; James McHenry; John Wiliam McLaury; James McQuade; George Merritt; Daniel S. Miller, Jr.; Darius Ogden Mills; Ogden Mills; Meade Miniegerode; Alexander Taylor More (Jay Gould's grandfather); Betty Taylor More; Iram More (Jay Gould's cousin); John More; Nancy Harley More (mentioned); J. Pierpont Morgan; Giovanni Pertinax Morosini; Clara Morris; Levi P. Morton; John P. Munn; Gustavus Myers; Henry Norcross; Alice Northrop Snow (Jay Gould's niece); George W. Northrop (Jay Gould's brother-in-law); Howard Gould Northrop (Jay Gould's nephew); Ida Northrop (Jay Gould's niece); Reid Northrop (Jay Gould's nephew); Caleb Norvell; James Oliver; William Orton; Charles S. Osgood; Michael Osheowitz; H. N. Otis; Anna Palen; Caroline Palen; Gilbert J. Palen (Dr); Gilbert M. Palen (Dr); Edward Palen; Gilbert Palen; Walter Gould Palen; Joseph Patchin; Yvonne Patenotre; James W. Patterson; William Paulding; Rufus Peckham (Judge); Charles E. Perkins; Horace Porter; Joseph Pourtales (Count); Abigail Watson Pratt; Beda Dickermann Pratt; Esther Dickermann Pratt; George Watson Pratt; H. D. V. Pratt; Mary Watson Pratt; Suzi Grimm Pratt; Zaddock Pratt; Robert H. Pruyn; Joseph Pulitzer; George M. Pullman; Homer Ramsdell; Joseph H. Ramsey; Henry L. Raphael; Henry Reed Rathbone (as Henry R. Rathbone); Andrew H. Reeder; Whitelaw Reid; Josiah Reiff; Hiram Rogers; Cornelius Roosevelt (mentioned as Cornelius Van Schaack Roosevelt, grandfather of Theodore Roosevelt); Theodore Roosevelt (mentioned); Love B. Ryan; Olivia Slocum Sage; Russell Sage; Richard Schell; Tom Scott; Jesse Seligman; Joseph Seligman; A. A. Selover (mentioned); John Sharp (mentioned); Thomas G. Shearman; Finley J. Shepard; Daniel E. Sickles; M. R. Simons; George Sinclair; Guinevere Sinclair; Jane Sinclair; Sir Edward Sinclair; Charles Sisson; Henry N. Smith; Charles Henry Snow; Helen Gould Snow; Henry Nicholas Snow; Albert Speyers; David Squires; George Squires; Leland Stanford; Edwin M. Stanton (mentioned); W. T. Stead; Edmund Clarence Stedman; Edward S. Stokes (Ned); George Templeton Strong; Sutherland (Judge); Peter B. Sweeny; Hannah Talcott; Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duc de Sagan (as Duc Hellie de Talleyrand-Perigord)
- Important places
- New York, USA; New York, New York, USA; Roxbury, New York, USA
- Important events
- Attempted takeover of the Erie Railroad
- Dedication
- Dedicated to the memory of
Alf Evers
Catskills historian extraordinaire
1905 - 2004
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- Nonfiction, Business, Biography & Memoir, History, General Nonfiction, Economics
- DDC/MDS
- 332.092 — Society, Government, and Culture Economics Banking & Money Biography And History Biography
- LCC
- HC102.5 .G678 .R46 — Social sciences Economic history and conditions Economic history and conditions By region or country
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