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Panic on Wall Street : a history of America's financial disasters / Robert Sobel.

By: Sobel, Robert, 1931 Feb. 19-1999.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, Macmillan [1968]Bibliography: Bibliography: p. 443-451; Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-451).Description: 469 p. 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeSubject(s): Securities industry -- United States | Depressions | SpeculationDDC classification: 338.54/2/0973
Contents:
Introduction -- William Duer and the panic of 1792 -- The crisis of Jacksonian finances: 1837 -- The western blizzard of 1857 -- The circus comes to town: 1865-69 -- Crisis of the gilded age: 1873 -- Grant's last panic: 1884 -- Grover Cleveland and the ordeal of 1893-95 -- The struggle of the titans: the Northern Pacific corner of 1901 -- The Knickerbocker Trust panic of 1907 -- The year the stock market closed: 1914 -- 1929: the making of the myth -- The Kennedy slide: 1962 -- Conclusion.
Subject: A survey of the 12 financial crises which have gripped the American economy from the post-Revolutionary era to the 1960's.
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Bibliography: p. 443-451.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-451).

Introduction -- William Duer and the panic of 1792 -- The crisis of Jacksonian finances: 1837 -- The western blizzard of 1857 -- The circus comes to town: 1865-69 -- Crisis of the gilded age: 1873 -- Grant's last panic: 1884 -- Grover Cleveland and the ordeal of 1893-95 -- The struggle of the titans: the Northern Pacific corner of 1901 -- The Knickerbocker Trust panic of 1907 -- The year the stock market closed: 1914 -- 1929: the making of the myth -- The Kennedy slide: 1962 -- Conclusion.

A survey of the 12 financial crises which have gripped the American economy from the post-Revolutionary era to the 1960's.

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