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Twenty Years of Inside Life in Wall Street or Revelations of the Personal Experience of a Speculator (Annotated) Paperback – April 9, 2016

by William Worthington Fowler (Author), Janet M. Tavakoli (Editor, Foreword)
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This is a manually remastered illustrated and annotated paperback edition.

The Gilded Age of Wall Street: Conspiracies and Corners, Greenbacks and Gold, War and Peace, Bubbles and Bear Raids, Riches and Ruin, Margin Calls and Crashes, the Great Panic, and the Great Depression

Wall Street ran red with the blood of suicides and murder as the Lions of The Gilded Age made and lost epic fortunes. Enjoy William Worthington Fowler's thrilling saga of the New York traded markets from 1860-1880, a period that spanned the Civil War, the post war bubble, worthless paper money, the Black Friday Gold Panic of 1869, the Great Panic of 1873, and the consequent first and worst seven-year Great Depression. He witnessed how U.S. government paper money replaced specie leading to bubbles, panics, and crashes.

Fowler met the most influential financiers of the day including Addison G. Cammack, Salmon P. Chase, Daniel Drew, James "Diamond Jim" Fisk, Jr., Jason Gould aka Jay Gould, David Groesbeck, Leonard W. Jerome, Addison G. Jerome, Henry Keep, Jacob Little, Cornelius Vanderbilt, William Henry Vanderbilt, and more. Their fortunes rose and fell on margin, carry, and derivatives including puts, calls, and futures. They risked everything speculating in equities and a wide range of commodities including gold, silver, cotton, oil, and more. Fowler’s tale entertains as he exposes the great market corners, trading rings, conspiracies, bear twists, manipulations, and frauds.

The foreword and annotations by Janet Tavakoli draw parallels between the Panic of 1873 and Great Depression of 1873-1880 with the financial crisis of 2008 and the ongoing Great Recession. Edited to correct errors and inconsistencies in the original edition. Includes annotations with additional biographical and background material.

"A gem of a book. Fowler's writing on trading activity is the best of any period. As Tavakoli writes in the foreword, the traders' classic Reminiscences of a Stock Operator pales in comparison."
San Francisco Review of Books

"Its descriptions of the tremendous games of speculation, the rise and fall of fortune, the reckless regard and desperate adventure which shocked and disturbed the world are exceedingly graphic and spirited."
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), Fireside Poet and author of Snow-Bound

"Nearly one hundred and fifty newspapers...all of the leading journals of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago,...most flattering notices, read everywhere with avidity."
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"Its descriptions of the tremendous games of speculation, the rise and fall of fortune, the reckless regard and desperate adventure which shocked and disturbed the world are exceedingly graphic and spirited."
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), Fireside Poet and author of Snow-Bound

"Nearly one hundred and fifty newspapers...all of the leading journals of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago,...most flattering notices, read everywhere with avidity."
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"A gem of a book. Fowler's writing on trading activity is probably the best of any period. As Tavakoli writes in the foreword, the traders' classic Reminiscences of a Stock Operator pales in comparison."
San Francisco Review of Books (2016)

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lyons McNamara LLC (April 9, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 451 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1943543062
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1943543069
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.57 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 1.02 x 9.21 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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Janet Tavakoli is the president of Tavakoli Structured Finance, a derivatives risk consulting firm for financial institutions. She has worked as a chemical engineer, earned her MBA from the University of Chicago, taught derivatives as an adjunct associate professor of finance at the University of Chicago's Booth Business School (Graduate School of Business), and worked for Wall Street firms in New York, Tokyo, and London. She was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, lived in Iran during the Islamic revolution, lived in New York for a decade, lived in London for several years, and has traveled extensively for business and pleasure in Europe and Japan.

She is the author of Risk (Lyons McNamara 2016), Decisions: Life and Death on Wall Street (Lyons McNamara 2015), Credit Derivatives & Synthetic Structures (Wiley 1998, 2001), Structured Finance & Collateralized Debt Obligations (Wiley 2003, 2008), and Dear Mr. Buffett: What an Investor Learns 1,269 Miles from Wall Street, (Wiley 2009).

The New Robber Barons (Lyons McNamara, 2013), is a compilation of her web-based commentaries since the September 2008 financial crisis.

Archangels: Rise of the Jesuits (Lyons McNamara, 2013) is her fiction debut thriller.

Unveiled Threat: A Personal Experience of Fundamentalist Islam and the Roots of Terrorism (Lyons McNamara, 2014) is a non-fiction thriller and commentary.

Ms. Tavakoli is frequently published and quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Times, Business Week, Bloomberg News, and more. She is also a frequent front page writer at the Huffington Post. Frequent television appearances include CBS's 60 Minutes, CNN, C-Span, CNBC, BNN, CBS Evening News, Bloomberg TV, Fox, ABC, and BBC.

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