Analyzes the practices of the outdoor securities market of lower Manhattan from the late 18th century to 1921 and shows the impact of government investigation and legislation on Wall Street.

Category: Banking & Finance This title is part of the Business Histories list. Of Interest: AMEX: A History of the American Stock Exchange The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market Inside Wall Street Takeover: The New Wall Street Warriors: The Men, the Money, the Impact

Publisher Comments

This historical account is one of the most dramatic success stories in the nation's business history. It chronicles the rise of a much maligned, unstructured group of men known as the curbstone brokers--because that is where they conducted their business--to a powerful and respected securities market, which in 1953 became the American Stock Exchange.

No book review available

Robert Nathen Sobel was a professor of business history at Hofstra University for more than forty years and held a Ph.D. from New York University. He is author of more than two dozen books on American economic and business history, including Herbert Hoover and the Onset of the Great Depression and Coolidge: An American Enigma. Besides producing books, articles, book reviews, scripts for television and audiotapes, he was a weekly columnist for Newsday from 1972 to 1988. In 1998, Sobel was the recipient of the second Special Achievement Sidewise Award for Alternate History for this book, which was republished in 1998.At the time of his death he was a contributing editor to Barron's magazine He died Wednesday, June 2, 1999 of brain cancer. Professor Sobel was 68. Sobel is a highly esteemed business historian. Sobel's purpose in any book he wrote was to help his reader learn from them. Other Beard Books by Robert Sobel AMEX: A History of the American Stock Exchange Dangerous Dreamers: The Financial Innovators from Charles Merrill to Michael Milken Inside Wall Street   ITT: The Management of Opportunity Panic on Wall Street: A History of America's Financial Disasters The Big Board: A History of the New York Stock Market The Entrepreneurs: Explorations Within the American Business Tradition The Fallen Colossus The Money Manias: The Eras of Great Speculation in America 1770-1970 The Rise and Fall of the Conglomerate Kings Thomas Watson, Sr.: IBM and the Computer Revolution

home    |    about us     |     contact us    |     related sites