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Fascinating New Yorkers - Power Freaks, Mobsters, Liberated Women, Creators, Queers and Crazies: Power Freaks, Mobsters, Liberated Women, Creators, Queers and Crazies: Power Freaks, Mobsters, Liberated Women, Creators, Queers and Crazies (Paperback)
Clifford Browder; Cover design or artwork by Mirna Gilman
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Dark Knowledge (Paperback)
Anna Faktorovich; Clifford Browder
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"I got to be a millionaire afore I know'd it hardly," remarked the
Wall Street financier Daniel Drew (1797-1879). An uneducated farm
boy from Putnam County, New York, he became in turn a successful
cattle drover, a circus clown, tavern keeper, a shrewd Hudson River
steamboat operator, and an unscrupulous speculator. As the colorful
"Uncle Daniel" of Wall Street-his whiskered face seamed with
wrinkles and twinkling with steel-gray eyes -- time and again he
disrupted the financial markets with manipulations whereby he
either won or lost millions of dollars. Having "got religion" upon
hearing a scary hell-fire sermon at the age of fourteen, Drew was
also a fervent Methodist. Rumors of his financial operations--epic
struggles that pitted him against Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould,
and Jim Fisk, and that subjected him to threats of arrest and even
kidnapping, and on one occasion to a most undignified flight from
the state-baffled and disturbed the Methodists, who admittedly had
little grasp of Wall Street but knew firsthand Brother Drew's
tearful repentance at prayer meetings and his generosity in
founding churches and seminaries. With its dual commitment to
religion and rascality, Drew's career is a rich study in
contradictions, an exciting chronicle of high drama and low comedy
capped by bankruptcy. To understand Drew in his complexity, the
author argues, is to get a grip on the heady and exploitative age
that produced him -- the yesterday of "smartness" and "go ahead"
that helped engender the America of today. Based on primary
sources, this is the first full-fledged biography of Drew, who
hitherto has been known chiefly through a fictionalized and
fraudulent account of 1910.
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