Author: Theodore Dreiser
Publisher: CreateSpace
Keywords: financier
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2008-12-30
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 1441422021
ISBN-13: 9781441422026

In Philadelphia, Frank Cowperwood, whose father is a banker, makes his first money by buying cheap soaps on the market and selling it back with profit to a grocer. Later, he gets a job in Henry Waterman & Company, and leaves it for Tighe & Company. He also marries an affluent widow, in spite of his young age. Over the years, he starts embezzling municipal funds. As the story continues, Frank gets heavily involved in stocks and makes and loses several forunes.A riveting tale fresh out of today’s headlines.

Author: Theodore Dreiser
Publisher: BiblioBazaar
Keywords: novel, financier
Number of Pages: 574
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $32.99
ISBN-10: 1434675556
ISBN-13: 9781434675552

Author: Parry Laird
Publisher: Unlimited Publishing
Keywords: financier, novice
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2005-03-15
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 1588321290
ISBN-13: 9781588321299

A guide to making ends meet.. without any ends; building a nest egg, now and later; investing and trading for profit. Includes investing truisms, financial jewels, and trading secrets; no-cost educational resources; answers to tough questions in hard financial times.

Author: Jean Strouse
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: financier, american, morgan
Number of Pages: 848
Published: 2000-04-01
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0060955899
ISBN-13: 9780060955892

History has remembered J. Pierpont Morgan as a complex and contradictory figure, part robber baron and part patron saint. Now this magisterial biography, based extensively on new material, draws a definitive, full-scale portrait of Morgan’s tumultuous life both in and out of the public eye.Morgan earned his reputation as "the Napoleon of Wall Street" by reorganizing the nation’s railroads and creating some of its greatest industrial trusts, including General Electric and U.S. Steel. At a time when the United States had no Federal Reserve System, he appointed himself a one-man centr

Author: Theodore Dreiser
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Keywords: classics, penguin, financier
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2008-11-25
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 014310554X
ISBN-13: 9780143105541

A defiant critique of American capitalismA MASTER OF GRITTY NATURALISM, Theodore Dreiser explores the corruption of the American dream in The Financier. Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and double-deals, betrays and is in turn betrayed, his rise and fall come to represent the American success story stripped down to brutal realities—a struggle for spoils without conscience or pity. Dreiser’s 1912 classic remains an unsparing social critique as wel

Author: Theodore Dreiser
Publisher: Plume
Keywords: classics, meridian, financier
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1967-11-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0452008255
ISBN-13: 9780452008250

A defiant critique of American capitalismA MASTER OF GRITTY NATURALISM, Theodore Dreiser explores the corruption of the American dream in The Financier. Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and double-deals, betrays and is in turn betrayed, his rise and fall come to represent the American success story stripped down to brutal realities—a struggle for spoils without conscience or pity. Dreiser’s 1912 classic remains an unsparing social critique as wel

Author: Richard Brandt
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: financier, athlete, entrepreneur, life, instincts, capital
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-01-24
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 0471214175
ISBN-13: 9780471214175

Praise for CAPITAL INSTINCTS "Thom Weisel’s career has been remarkable. In sequence he has built two successful investment banking and research firms. That would be enough, but he has also revitalized the U.S. Ski Team, backed and inspired the winning Tour de France cycling team, encouraged Lance Armstrong to become a world-class competitor again after his battle with cancer, financially and spiritually empowered the Empower America think tank, and assembled a world-class contemporary art collection. You cannot do all this without having exceptional energy, uncanny vision, outstandi