Even before he was shot dead on the stairway of the tony Grand
Central Hotel in 1872, financier James "Jubilee Jim" Fisk, Jr., was
a notorious New York City figure. From his audacious attempt to
corner the gold market in 1869 to his battle for control of the
geographically crucial Erie Railroad, Fisk was a flamboyant
exemplar of a new financial era marked by volatile fortunes and
unprecedented greed and corruption. But it was his scandalously
open affair with a showgirl named Josie Mansfield that ultimately
led to his demise.
In this riveting short history--the first in his American Portraits
series--H. W. Brands traces Fisk's extraordinary downfall, bringing
to life New York's Gilded Age and some of its legendary players,
including Boss William Tweed, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and the
railroad tycoon Jay Gould.
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